{"id":507465,"date":"2026-06-19T06:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507465\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:24:16","slug":"liam-neeson-produced-lost-children-of-tuam-dramatisation-to-premiere-at-galway-film-fleadh-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507465\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Neeson-produced Lost Children of Tuam dramatisation to premiere at Galway Film Fleadh \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Berry\u2019s The Lost Children of Tuam, based on the historian Catherine Corless<\/a>\u2019s discovery of numerous infant deaths at the Bon Secours mother and baby home in the Co Galway town, is to have its world premiere at this year\u2019s Galway Film Fleadh<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Monica Dolan<\/a>, the Yorkshire-born winner of a Bafta for her portrayal of the English serial killer Rosemary West in the gruelling ITV drama Appropriate Adult, stars as Corless in a film coproduced by Liam Neeson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corless was researching the Bon Secours home for a local historical society when she found that as many as 796 children may have been buried in unmarked graves at the site. The story eventually gained international traction and led to a campaign seeking justice for victims and survivors.<\/p>\n

The screenplay, by Rebecca Lenkiewicz \u2013 known for the #MeToo drama She Said<\/a> \u2013 is adapted from a 2017 New York Times article by Dan Barry. Neeson optioned the rights and now shares producer credits with distinguished veterans such as Martina Niland, for Port Pictures, and the Oscar-nominees Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney, of Element Pictures. Andrew Bennett and Ian McElhinney are also among the cast.<\/p>\n

Among Ireland\u2019s most gifted social-realist film-makers, Berry, who grew up in the Raheny area of Dublin, has been acclaimed for such humane titles as the 2017 prison drama Michael Inside<\/a> and, starring Josh O\u2019Connor and Letitia Wright, the searing 2022 film Aisha<\/a>, a study of Ireland\u2019s asylum system. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honoured to premiere The Lost Children of Tuam at the Galway Film Fleadh, a festival that\u2019s very close to my heart,\u201d Berry said. \u201cWe could not imagine a more meaningful and fitting start to the journey of this film.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s world premiere, on Saturday, July 11th, will take place little more than 30km from the site of Corless\u2019s researches.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrank Berry approaches this story with immense sensitivity, compassion and humanity,\u201d Charlene Lydon, programmer of the fleadh, now reaching its 38th edition, said. \u201cWe are honoured to present its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh and to provide a platform for a story that continues to resonate both in Ireland and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corless, who in 2017 was honoured with the Bar of Ireland\u2019s human-rights award in recognition of her \u201cexceptional humanitarian service\u201d, is supportive of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cA brilliant director, exceptional writer, multiskilled producers and a whole team of dedicated people have put their hearts and energy into this film, to portray the truth of what really happened in the Tuam home,\u201d Corless said. \u201cI am indebted to you all for bringing this movie to the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lost Children of Tuam, which will screen at the Town Hall Theatre, long spiritual centre of the fleadh, will be distributed in Ireland by Volta Pictures.<\/p>\n

Galway Film Fleadh<\/a> runs from Tuesday, July 7th, until Sunday, July 12th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Berry\u2019s The Lost Children of Tuam, based on the historian Catherine Corless\u2019s discovery of numerous infant deaths…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[132609,93,216251,61,60,7322,216823,35840,22136],"class_list":["post-507465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-catherine-corless","tag-entertainment","tag-galway-film-fleadh","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liam-neeson","tag-monica-dolan","tag-mother-baby-homes","tag-tuam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507465","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=507465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}