Liam Neeson produces film exposing Tuam infant burial scandal
Liam Neeson served as producer on Frank Berry’s film “The Lost Children of Tuam,” which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and brings Catherine Corless’s findings on infant deaths to a wider audience.
A decade after Dan Barry’s report uncovered the burial of 796 infants at the Bon Secours home in Tuam, Liam Neeson decided to use his stature to tell the story on film. He reached out to longtime collaborator Jules Daly, who agreed to help, and Neeson took on a producer role for Frank Berry’s socially-charged drama “The Lost Children of Tuam,” with Monica Dolan portraying historian Catherine Corless. The movie opened to a standing-ovation at the Galway Film Fleadh in July, where survivors and Corless herself were present in the Town Hall Theatre.
Neeson said his anger and sense of moral duty drove the project, noting similar hidden child burial sites worldwide. Recent digs in Tuam have already uncovered 99 more infant remains in nine months, highlighting the ongoing investigation. The film seeks to raise global awareness of historic abuses by the Catholic Church and related institutions.
Why it matters
The film amplifies a historic child-burial scandal, urging accountability for past institutional abuses.
In this story
