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New York Times Reporter Dan Barry to Talk About “The Lost Children of Tuam” at RWU on Nov. 14

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Roger Williams UniversityDOCS@RWUFeatured News Story The Week at Roger11-1-2017New York Times Reporter Dan Barry to TalkAbout “The Lost Children of Tuam” at RWU onNov. 14Edward FitzpatrickRoger Williams UniversityFollow this and additional works at: https://docs.rwu.edu/weekatroger_featured_newsPart of the Higher Education CommonsThis News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Week at Roger at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in FeaturedNews Story by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact mwu@rwu.edu.Recommended CitationFitzpatrick, Edward, "New York Times Reporter Dan Barry to Talk About “The Lost Children of Tuam” at RWU on Nov. 14" (2017).Featured News Story. 242.https://docs.rwu.edu/weekatroger_featured_news/24210/31/2018 New York Times Reporter Dan Barry to Talk About “The Lost Children of Tuam” at RWU on Nov. 14 | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/new-york-times-reporter-dan-barry-talk-about-lost-children-tuam-rwu-nov-14 1/2 News ArchiveNew York Times Reporter Dan Barry to Talk About“The Lost Children of Tuam” at RWU on Nov. 14Community invited to hear journalist and author speak as part of yearlong series,“Talking About Race, Gender and Power”November 1, 2017 Edward FitzpatrickBRISTOL, R.I. – New York Times columnist and reporter Dan Barry will visit Roger Williams Universityon Tuesday, Nov. 14, to discuss his recent special report, The Lost Children of Tuam, a disturbingaccount of the historic mistreatment of unwed Irish mothers and their children.Barry’s talk represents that latest installment in RWU’s yearlong series, “Talking about Race, Genderand Power.” Free and open to the public, the talk will run from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Mary Te tWhite Cultural Center in the University Library, on the Bristol campus at One Old Ferry Road.The Lost Children of Tuam presents a heartbreaking description of the Mother and Baby Home inTuam, County Galway, where unmarried mothers were sent and forced to abandon their children toa group of nuns. It details the investigative work carried out by a local woman, Catherine Corless,who discovered that nearly 800 “home babies” had no burial records. And it recounts thegruesome discovery of the bodies of small children and babies buried in a decommissioned septicsystem behind the Mother and Baby Home. The article and accompanying video have receivedmillions of hits on the New York Times website and social media.10/31/2018 New York Times Reporter Dan Barry to Talk About “The Lost Children of Tuam” at RWU on Nov. 14 | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/new-york-times-reporter-dan-barry-talk-about-lost-children-tuam-rwu-nov-14 2/2“Roger Williams University is pleased to welcome Dan Barry, one of our nation’s  nest writers, whouses his powers of narrative and description to shine a vivid light on instances of injustice and theabuse of power,” RWU President Donald J. Farish said. “The Lost Children of Tuam is an alarming butimportant portrait of a universal problem involving powerful institutions and the treatment ofwomen.”Barry is a former Providence Journal reporter who has written four books, including Bottom of the33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game, about the record-setting game atPawtucket’s McCoy Stadium. His latest book, The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation inthe Heartland, tells the story of men with intellectual disability who endured decades of exploitation– living in an old schoolhouse and working at an Iowa turkey-processing plant for little pay – before nding justice and freedom.Barry has reported on many news events for the New York Times, including the attack on the WorldTrade Center and the a ermath of Hurricane Katrina. He has been a City Hall bureau chief, a LongIsland bureau chief, a sportswriter, a general assignment reporter, and, for three years, the “AboutNew York” columnist. As the “This Land” columnist for the Times, he traveled to all 50 states, wherehe met the coroner from “The Wizard of Oz” in a Florida retirement home, was hit in the chest by anAsian carp leaping out of the Illinois River, and learned the bump-and-grind from a retired burlesquequeen in Baraboo, Wis.Barry previously worked for the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn., and for The ProvidenceJournal, where he was part of an investigative team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for a series ofarticles about Rhode Island’s court system. A graduate of St. Bonaventure University and New YorkUniversity, he lives in Maplewood, N.J., with his wife, Mary Trinity, and daughters, Nora and Grace.ACADEMICS LIFE @ RWU

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