An unusual case. A 70-year-old (?) man, going by the name Philip Frank Morris, applied for a passport in Cork using the birth certificate of a baby that died in 1953. He refused to cooperate with Gardaí, so we don’t know who he is or why he is hiding his real identity.
Anything would be unfounded speculation really at this time, but I expect in given “Ireland in the 1950s”, it would be entirely *possible* he’s himself actually gone his whole life thinking he was Philip, and his false identity isn’t his fault but was some coverup by his ostensible parents/guardians who got hold of a dead baby’s birth cert.
The Gardaí could break his cover story by just asking him to pronounce Youghal
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An unusual case. A 70-year-old (?) man, going by the name Philip Frank Morris, applied for a passport in Cork using the birth certificate of a baby that died in 1953. He refused to cooperate with Gardaí, so we don’t know who he is or why he is hiding his real identity.
Anything would be unfounded speculation really at this time, but I expect in given “Ireland in the 1950s”, it would be entirely *possible* he’s himself actually gone his whole life thinking he was Philip, and his false identity isn’t his fault but was some coverup by his ostensible parents/guardians who got hold of a dead baby’s birth cert.
The Gardaí could break his cover story by just asking him to pronounce Youghal