{"id":290287,"date":"2026-02-10T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:52:09","slug":"audiences-will-be-shocked-mum-and-daughter-star-in-play-about-terrible-legacy-of-mother-and-baby-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290287\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Audiences will be shocked\u2019 \u2013 mum and daughter star in play about terrible legacy of mother and baby homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018The Marian Hotel\u2019 was written by Derry woman Caitriona Cunningham, a survivor of one such insistution\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoibhinn O\u2019Doherty plays Kitty and her mother Maeve Connelly plays the part of Sr Rosanne in \u2018The Marian Hotel'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dc9526bb-383a-48ca-bba9-16be671374cd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aoibhinn O\u2019Doherty plays Kitty and her mother Maeve Connelly plays the part of Sr Rosanne in \u2018The Marian Hotel&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In 1979, at the age of 19, Derry woman Caitriona Cunningham found herself in Marianvale, a mother and baby institution run by the Good Shepherd Sisters on the outskirts of Newry, Co Down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The play she wrote many years later follows Kitty as she enters the institution nicknamed \u201cThe Marian Hotel\u201d by the young women who found themselves there. It brings the voices of these women centre stage as they grapple with the devastating reality of being young, pregnant and forced to give up their babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The Marian Hotel\u2019 was written by Derry woman Caitriona Cunningham, a survivor of one such insistution Aoibhinn O\u2019Doherty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,75204],"class_list":{"0":"post-290287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kathy-donaghy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}