i‘m sorry, but david quinn as head of the iona institute, which is basically a very conservative catholic whatsoever... but you do accept that that cut the infant mortality rate across society, and would have had an impact in these homes. i don‘t believe so, because there wasn‘t an impact in general society in ireland. there was no dramatic fall in infant mortality rates in ireland across those years. dr lindsey earner—byrne, a lecturer in history at university college dublin, said this, and has written about this time period and what was happening — says that tuam, which is the home where 800 babies were found in a mass grave, didn‘t happen in a vacuum. and she makes the point that every year in the ‘30s and ‘40s the number of deaths of illegitimate children was published. it was known, it was in the public domain. society knew. society did know, but society didn‘t care, and society thought they knew the reason for that was because illegitimate children were weaklings. you have to remember, at the time, illegitimate people couldn‘t become priests in the catholic church, they couldn‘tjoin