Daniel Loftus
@danielloftus.projectinfant.ie
22 | College Student | Genealogist, creator of Project Infant — projectinfant.ie, posts #Genealogy and my research into #MotherAndBabyHomes. Wanna-be many things, too little time. Hopeful optimist. 😅
Links: https://linktr.ee/danielloftus
📍Cork, Ireland
Links: https://linktr.ee/danielloftus
📍Cork, Ireland
So, went on to the Irish Newspaper Archive website, forgetting the site revamp has gone live and oh, my GOD it's a massive improvement. Way more smooth when trying to view pages with more than 10 results to them. [and the infinite loading screens] - still getting used to the search, but good so far!
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
So, went on to the Irish Newspaper Archive website, forgetting the site revamp has gone live and oh, my GOD it's a massive improvement. Way more smooth when trying to view pages with more than 10 results to them. [and the infinite loading screens] - still getting used to the search, but good so far!
The number of times I know what I want to do but can't think of the term for it. 🙄
Question. When you see on websites, you have like a path?
Like: [photo] - what are these called and is this a plugin possible for WordPress? 😅
Question. When you see on websites, you have like a path?
Like: [photo] - what are these called and is this a plugin possible for WordPress? 😅
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The number of times I know what I want to do but can't think of the term for it. 🙄
Question. When you see on websites, you have like a path?
Like: [photo] - what are these called and is this a plugin possible for WordPress? 😅
Question. When you see on websites, you have like a path?
Like: [photo] - what are these called and is this a plugin possible for WordPress? 😅
So, when you block someone — a user can see you have done so & you can see when someone has blocked you. You’ll see the below tags on someone’s account if that’s the case.
But, a list of who you’ve blocked & those who are blocking you can be found by looking your profile up on Clearsky.
But, a list of who you’ve blocked & those who are blocking you can be found by looking your profile up on Clearsky.
October 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
So, when you block someone — a user can see you have done so & you can see when someone has blocked you. You’ll see the below tags on someone’s account if that’s the case.
But, a list of who you’ve blocked & those who are blocking you can be found by looking your profile up on Clearsky.
But, a list of who you’ve blocked & those who are blocking you can be found by looking your profile up on Clearsky.
I have a lot to say, but can't put it all into one post, so hopefully the image below will express it better than 280 characters could ever.
It's a big change for @projectinfant.ie but one that needed to be done.
Thank you all who support our work. 🩷🩵🤍
🔗: projectinfant.ie/forster
It's a big change for @projectinfant.ie but one that needed to be done.
Thank you all who support our work. 🩷🩵🤍
🔗: projectinfant.ie/forster
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I have a lot to say, but can't put it all into one post, so hopefully the image below will express it better than 280 characters could ever.
It's a big change for @projectinfant.ie but one that needed to be done.
Thank you all who support our work. 🩷🩵🤍
🔗: projectinfant.ie/forster
It's a big change for @projectinfant.ie but one that needed to be done.
Thank you all who support our work. 🩷🩵🤍
🔗: projectinfant.ie/forster
![@genealogybaby
I see this fella more than my own husband.
#genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry
[Enclosed is the error message for Ancestry with a photo of a man sifting for gold]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u67z2btodpgh6bxxdkfbcwgp/bafkreicghzubvxdxobg7h4nigzinuoifh4hvkcoodhxs37sldkf4jwnn7e@jpeg)
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just when I sit down to work on some Project Infant research, Irish Genealogy goes to hell. 😖🥴
[And this is happening to me on eeeeeevery record I try to look at.]
[And this is happening to me on eeeeeevery record I try to look at.]
September 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Just when I sit down to work on some Project Infant research, Irish Genealogy goes to hell. 😖🥴
[And this is happening to me on eeeeeevery record I try to look at.]
[And this is happening to me on eeeeeevery record I try to look at.]
September 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
So, 2 people found Project Infant's website from ChatGPT. I wonder how my website came about in a ChatGPT exchange?
August 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
So, 2 people found Project Infant's website from ChatGPT. I wonder how my website came about in a ChatGPT exchange?
The plot is poorly kept, with the only two 'monuments', a broken plaque for Julia O'Donoghue in May 1984 & a metal cross with the wrong name inscribed: Doris Walsh instead of Ann Walsh in January 1985.
Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.
Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.
July 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The plot is poorly kept, with the only two 'monuments', a broken plaque for Julia O'Donoghue in May 1984 & a metal cross with the wrong name inscribed: Doris Walsh instead of Ann Walsh in January 1985.
Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.
Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.
In November of 1927, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary purchased three graves, combined into one plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork.
This is what the grave looks like now.
@timbre-breda.bsky.social & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot.
17 people are buried here.
This is what the grave looks like now.
@timbre-breda.bsky.social & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot.
17 people are buried here.
July 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
In November of 1927, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary purchased three graves, combined into one plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork.
This is what the grave looks like now.
@timbre-breda.bsky.social & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot.
17 people are buried here.
This is what the grave looks like now.
@timbre-breda.bsky.social & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot.
17 people are buried here.
3 years ago today, I took a chance.
Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me.
With the help of @projectinfant.ie volunteers, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions so far.
More to come!
Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me.
With the help of @projectinfant.ie volunteers, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions so far.
More to come!
July 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
3 years ago today, I took a chance.
Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me.
With the help of @projectinfant.ie volunteers, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions so far.
More to come!
Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me.
With the help of @projectinfant.ie volunteers, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions so far.
More to come!
Anyone on #Genealogy Bluesky able to help decipher this cause of death?
So far, we've got Croupous pneumonia (double pneumonia) 17 days.
Then: M_____ F____ Disease Certified.
Any ideas?
Link to the page is: www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/...
So far, we've got Croupous pneumonia (double pneumonia) 17 days.
Then: M_____ F____ Disease Certified.
Any ideas?
Link to the page is: www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/...
July 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Anyone on #Genealogy Bluesky able to help decipher this cause of death?
So far, we've got Croupous pneumonia (double pneumonia) 17 days.
Then: M_____ F____ Disease Certified.
Any ideas?
Link to the page is: www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/...
So far, we've got Croupous pneumonia (double pneumonia) 17 days.
Then: M_____ F____ Disease Certified.
Any ideas?
Link to the page is: www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/...
Looking forward to attending the premiere of "In Plain Sight" by @nollieb.bsky.social & Camille O'Sullivan with @sharonloftus.bsky.social tomorrow.
Please do try and make this if you can!
Tickets are available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Please do try and make this if you can!
Tickets are available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
July 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Looking forward to attending the premiere of "In Plain Sight" by @nollieb.bsky.social & Camille O'Sullivan with @sharonloftus.bsky.social tomorrow.
Please do try and make this if you can!
Tickets are available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Please do try and make this if you can!
Tickets are available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Update your Bluesky app, people! 🙂
Post notifications are here!
Post notifications are here!
July 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Update your Bluesky app, people! 🙂
Post notifications are here!
Post notifications are here!
But I had received no such thing from them until *JUNE 26th*, nearly a month after.
But it didn't directly answer my request, instead they referred me to others, one from the COIMBH
Preferring to look at the source material myself I wrote back saying I want to arrange access…
But it didn't directly answer my request, instead they referred me to others, one from the COIMBH
Preferring to look at the source material myself I wrote back saying I want to arrange access…
July 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
But I had received no such thing from them until *JUNE 26th*, nearly a month after.
But it didn't directly answer my request, instead they referred me to others, one from the COIMBH
Preferring to look at the source material myself I wrote back saying I want to arrange access…
But it didn't directly answer my request, instead they referred me to others, one from the COIMBH
Preferring to look at the source material myself I wrote back saying I want to arrange access…
I filled the form on May 2nd, in the CCC lobby & handed it in. I would receive no acknowledgement of its receipt until May 13th, over a week's worth of working days later.
I was told that I would receive a response by May 30th...
I was told that I would receive a response by May 30th...
July 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I filled the form on May 2nd, in the CCC lobby & handed it in. I would receive no acknowledgement of its receipt until May 13th, over a week's worth of working days later.
I was told that I would receive a response by May 30th...
I was told that I would receive a response by May 30th...
I'm incredibly disappointed by Cork City Council [CCC] in their handling of my Freedom of Information Request [FOI] and how I am no closer to answers over 2 months later.
I was very clear in what I was after - to examine the burial registers of St. Joseph's & St. Finbarr's...
🧵
I was very clear in what I was after - to examine the burial registers of St. Joseph's & St. Finbarr's...
🧵
July 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'm incredibly disappointed by Cork City Council [CCC] in their handling of my Freedom of Information Request [FOI] and how I am no closer to answers over 2 months later.
I was very clear in what I was after - to examine the burial registers of St. Joseph's & St. Finbarr's...
🧵
I was very clear in what I was after - to examine the burial registers of St. Joseph's & St. Finbarr's...
🧵
Then the event concluded with one final song from the Underwoods & Hannah Fitzgerald.
The event was beautifully organised.
Once again, you can see the recording of the Commemoration [which is divided into segments with the event in its entirety] here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The event was beautifully organised.
Once again, you can see the recording of the Commemoration [which is divided into segments with the event in its entirety] here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Then the event concluded with one final song from the Underwoods & Hannah Fitzgerald.
The event was beautifully organised.
Once again, you can see the recording of the Commemoration [which is divided into segments with the event in its entirety] here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The event was beautifully organised.
Once again, you can see the recording of the Commemoration [which is divided into segments with the event in its entirety] here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Special Advocate, Patricia Carey (@patriciac.bsky.social) had shared the story of one family who had attended Bessborough commemorations and their connection to Bessborough through their mother.
youtu.be/9_FTXHSo2A0
youtu.be/9_FTXHSo2A0
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Special Advocate, Patricia Carey (@patriciac.bsky.social) had shared the story of one family who had attended Bessborough commemorations and their connection to Bessborough through their mother.
youtu.be/9_FTXHSo2A0
youtu.be/9_FTXHSo2A0
Next was Cork City Councillor, Terry Shannon who paid tribute to his late wife, adoption campaigner & former Lord Mayoress, Ursula - speaking about her life and his work with Bessborough.
youtu.be/wN_umwYlQFs
youtu.be/wN_umwYlQFs
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Next was Cork City Councillor, Terry Shannon who paid tribute to his late wife, adoption campaigner & former Lord Mayoress, Ursula - speaking about her life and his work with Bessborough.
youtu.be/wN_umwYlQFs
youtu.be/wN_umwYlQFs
Subsequently, Professor Katherine O'Donnell (@ka-od.bsky.social) also paid tribute to Mari T. Steed & had spoke about Mari's activism as part of Justice for Magdalenes Research [JFMR].
youtu.be/F0tJWKAAlDY
youtu.be/F0tJWKAAlDY
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Subsequently, Professor Katherine O'Donnell (@ka-od.bsky.social) also paid tribute to Mari T. Steed & had spoke about Mari's activism as part of Justice for Magdalenes Research [JFMR].
youtu.be/F0tJWKAAlDY
youtu.be/F0tJWKAAlDY
Afterwards was Dr. Claire McGettrick (@cmcgettrick.bsky.social), who paid tribute to campaigner, Bessborough baby & mother and baby home survivor, Mari T. Steed who had died last October speaking about her activism.
youtu.be/vqa4hAdr-64
youtu.be/vqa4hAdr-64
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Afterwards was Dr. Claire McGettrick (@cmcgettrick.bsky.social), who paid tribute to campaigner, Bessborough baby & mother and baby home survivor, Mari T. Steed who had died last October speaking about her activism.
youtu.be/vqa4hAdr-64
youtu.be/vqa4hAdr-64
Then was the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin.
He pledges to work with survivor groups on memorialisation for #Bessborough.
youtu.be/qpkUffTM3Tc
He pledges to work with survivor groups on memorialisation for #Bessborough.
youtu.be/qpkUffTM3Tc
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Then was the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin.
He pledges to work with survivor groups on memorialisation for #Bessborough.
youtu.be/qpkUffTM3Tc
He pledges to work with survivor groups on memorialisation for #Bessborough.
youtu.be/qpkUffTM3Tc
Firstly, was the opening address from Carmel Cantwell (@carmelcantwell.bsky.social) addressing the importance of investigating #Bessborough to establish the burial place of 859 missing children, calling on the authorities to take action.
youtu.be/A7MNRECGRbg
youtu.be/A7MNRECGRbg
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Firstly, was the opening address from Carmel Cantwell (@carmelcantwell.bsky.social) addressing the importance of investigating #Bessborough to establish the burial place of 859 missing children, calling on the authorities to take action.
youtu.be/A7MNRECGRbg
youtu.be/A7MNRECGRbg