They were educating us, the older members. So I remember going with Noel Robb, who was such a strong personality, to visit the migrant labour hospita… - Mary Burton

What will they do to make reparations for those who suffered so much in the past?” she says“Because without something being done – both symbolic and real – reconciliation is going to be very difficult.”

In the 1960s, this man, then a young photographer, would just walk around the village. The kids in the streets followed him; they all got to know him by name, taking him into their houses, where he was fed by the local mamas and so on. And now these photographs are in this book. Siona went back to the families he got to know, interviewing the next generation on the impact the removal had on them. It’s incredibly powerful. There were not many dry eyes

At the end of my life, they will put on my tombstone: ‘She did not take a government car!