Dear Editor, I would be grateful for the opportunity of both informing and inviting, to a very special and poignant event which will take place next month.
On April 2, 2014 time 4 pm , at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin, a service will take place in honour of 222 babies and young children who died in the Bethany Home Orwell Road Dublin, during 1922-1949.
The service will commence at 4 pm, and we are delighted that representatives from four of the main Christian denominations will be participating. In addition, we are pleased to be able to announce that following the service, a memorial headstone will be unveiled at the cemetery. We wish to acknowledge that the considerable cost of the headstone has been met by the Department for Justice, sanctioned by Minister Alan Shatter.
For too long, the short lives of these children have been unacknowledged, unnamed and their remains unmarked. It is highly appropriate that at last we can now rectify this situation, and that all of us have the opportunity to pay our respects, and to jointly remember a very sad occurrence in our history.
I therefore heartily extend an invitation to all, to join with us on this very special day.
Yours etc.,
Derek Linster,
Chair,
Bethany Survivors Group,
Warwickshire,
England.