A Magdalene Rose

<p><em>Can lives lived reveal their secrets and promises when they are part of Ireland's Scaradh Magdalene?</em> This is the remarkable true story flowing from the birth of a child his marriage a a wife who became the guardian of his secrets. We discover a mother incarcerated without due process for 42 years and a father who suffered loss and isolation. Love is forbidden. A promise to find truth and justice reveals that incarceration dogma and indifference towards a vulnerable life leads to the stunning realisation that a mother's death is cheap untruthful and disrespectful. Can she ever return home? Is a father still invisible? Is a wife released from a lifetime of the agony of secrecy? Has a son's promise to a father been satisfied? The stories of four lives delivers joy tears and discovery of what it is to be human to be Irish. It is a story of Ireland and of a Magdalene Rose and many women like her. It is the ultimate journey home.</p>