THE ANGELS PLOT AS IT WAS IN 2009

A photographic retrospective of the Angels Plot at Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery explores its emotional 2010 transformation from a chaotic site of informal family grief into a dignified remembrance garden. Contextualised by a personal family history of illegal infant burial, the post examines the global theological and institutional histories that forced stillborn and unbaptised children into anonymity throughout the 20th century.