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It provided accommodation for unmarried mothers and their children during a period when women were ostracised by Irish society, and often by their own families, if they became pregnant outside marriage.

She’s now in legal jeopardy, having conducted business as an unmarried woman.

He said: "It's really pleasing to be here today, it's the start of a new chapter in the struggle for an apology for all those unmarried mothers who suffered in the post-war period."

But she’s doing so here as an unmarried Black woman with all the unspoken freight that entails.

The brothers were unmarried and there were no children to take on their beloved Logie Farm, where they had lived for 30 years, raising cattle and sheep.