In Ireland, "Mother and Baby institutions" were a network of church-operated, state-funded facilities where unmarried mothers and their children were sent from the 1920s to the 1990s. These institutions and the so-called Magdalen Laundries are now recognized as the site of severe systemic abuse, high infant mortality, and forced adoptions. Between 1922 and 1998, an estimated 56,000 unmarried mothers and 57,000 children passed through these homes.

Here are three songs that deal with the the MOTHERS, the BABIES and the DEAD.