Fiction as Testimony: Writing the Stories Ireland Could Not RecordWritingHistorical records are often incomplete. In some cases, they are silent by design.Ireland’s institutional history—particularly that of the Mother and Baby Homes—exists in fragments: official documents, survivor testimonies, and public inquiries. Yet between these fragments lies a vast space of lived experience that was never formally recorded.This is where fiction enters.Fiction does not replace history, but it can engage…See More

Fiction as Testimony: Writing the Stories Ireland Could Not RecordWritingHistorical records are often incomplete. In some cases, they are silent by design.Ireland’s institutional history—particularly that of the Mother and Baby Homes—exists in fragments: official documents, survivor testimonies, and public inquiries. Yet between these fragments lies a vast space of lived experience that was never formally recorded.This is where fiction enters.Fiction does not replace history, but it can engage…See More