We Made It, Kid ★★★☆☆

It was clear that in 1961, no unmarried woman was going to be allowed to walk the streets of Limerick with her illegitimate child, especially a child of colour.

I’m not much of a reader of biographies and I am honestly not that interested in the personal details of other people’s lives, but the parts I find more interesting is the brief personal lens on the social conditions of Ireland in the ’60s and ’70s and the way that the state and church, in their union, tore people’s lives apart. This woman was torn from her mother’s arms as a baby because her mother was unmarried and her skin was too dark and not a single person who was involved in it has ever faced a single consequence for it.