They could prove nothing. There was no evidence that Helen O'Reilly
was ever there. And how would they believe that a woman of Mamie's
years could drag the body of a pregnant woman out of her
first-floor flat, down the stairs and up the street? On Christmas
Eve 1956, Mamie Cadden was sentenced to hang for the death of a
woman on whom she had performed an abortion that had gone wrong.
Mamie had been performing these operations in Dublin since the
1920s, but in the increasingly isolated and conservative Ireland of
the 1940s the lid was lifted on Dublin's abortion services. 'Nurse
Cadden' had trained as a midwife at the National Maternity Hospital
and soon opened her own nursing home. She was a regular sight in
Dublin driving around town in her red open-top MG sportscar, blonde
hair blowing in the breeze. From 1940 she concentrated her business
on providing a busy abortion service in Ireland. In the face of
escalating government, police and church hostility to services for
women, Mamie was unrepentant about her work. This is the story of
Ireland's most famous abortionist and the times in which she lived.
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