The Foundling Memorial Committee from the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute School of Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin held a wonderful and moving memorial ceremony at the Trinity Health Science Centre at St James’s Hospital Dublin.
Prof. Colin Doherty, Head of School, Trinity College School of Medicine and Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Epileptology and Consultant Neurologist at St James’s Hospital, Dublin said, “We celebrated in word, music and poetry, the thousands of children admitted to the Foundling Hospital on the site of St James who probably died there and whose remains maybe scattered across the campus. Between 1730 and 1830 we lost track of 100,000 innocents.
“In today’s world where the murder of children seems to be an acceptable price for international global politics this was a conscious act of resistance.”
