{"id":61160,"date":"2025-09-13T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/61160\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:05:12","slug":"liam-neeson-honoured-as-the-lost-children-of-tuam-movie-goes-into-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/61160\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Neeson &#8216;honoured&#8217; as \u2018The Lost Children of Tuam&#8217; movie goes into production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The filming of Liam Neeson\u2019s movie about the story of Tuam babies is underway, with a range of well-known actors unveiled to star in the production.<\/p>\n<p>\n             The Lost Children of Tuam is directed by Frank Berry and produced by Element Pictures and Liam Neeson\u2019s El Paso Films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Mr Bates vs The Post Office&#8217;s Monica Dolan will star as real life historian Catherine Corless who uncovered the names of the 796 children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Other cast members include Andrew Bennett ( An Cail\u00edn Ci\u00fain) and Ian McElhinney ( Derry Girls).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4778765_13_articleinlinemobile_2.34433677.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The film is directed by Frank Berry and produced by Element Pictures and Liam Neeson\u2019s El Paso Films.\" title=\"The film is directed by Frank Berry and produced by Element Pictures and Liam Neeson\u2019s El Paso Films.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>The film is directed by Frank Berry and produced by Element Pictures and Liam Neeson\u2019s El Paso Films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Liam Neeson said that he is \u201chonoured and proud\u201d to start the production after eight years of preparation \u201con this profound story of one woman\u2019s relentless pursuit and dedication in uncovering the horrific truth of the events in Tuam that shocked our nation to its core and is still reverberating in every aspect of our society. The truth will out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Catherine Corless has told  Screen Daily: \u201cIt is a great honour to me that a dedicated, professional and high-profile film crew are creating this film, which follows my arduous journey from when I first discovered what really happened in Tuam and the struggle, I faced to bring this truth to light against so many obstacles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Director Frank Berry said he hopes the film makes a meaningful contribution to that process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;We have a remarkable cast, led by the amazing Monica Dolan, and crew who are all approaching this subject with great care and sensitivity, aware of its deep significance in Ireland and beyond.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The filming of Liam Neeson\u2019s movie about the story of Tuam babies is underway, with a range of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[23204,18,117,20033,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-61160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-mother-and-baby-homes","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-film-tv","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}