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Ann Lovett was a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl from Granard, County Longford, Ireland who died giving birth beside a grotto on 31 January 1984.〔(Comment: Emily O'Reilly: The unfinished business of Ann Lovett and what we never managed to learn ), Emily O'Reilly, The Times, 30 March 2003, retrieved 3 July 2009〕 Her baby son died at the same time and the story of her death played a huge part in a seminal national debate in the country at the time on women giving birth outside marriage.〔〔(The lie of the land ), Fintan O'Toole, p.154〕〔(Ann Lovett: The story that wouldn't remain local ), Scannal, RTÉ Television〕〔(Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston and Lavin ), Jaqueline Fulmer, Ashgate, p.152〕〔(Emily O'Reilly's account of how she broke the story in the ''Sunday Tribune'' ), Emily O'Reilly, ''Sunday Tribune'', 28 June 2009〕〔(Disturbing stories from the underbelly of Irish life ), 3 October 2008〕〔(The GUBU years ), Fintan O'Toole, ''The Irish Times'',〕〔(Death that shocked Ireland ), ''The Age'', Ronit Lentin, 1 June 1984, retrieved 4 July 2009〕 ==Events== Tuesday, 31 January 1984 was a cold, wet, winter's day in Granard, County Longford. That afternoon, the fifteen year old school girl left her Cnoc Mhuire Secondary School and made her way to a Grotto dedicated to the Virgin Mary at the top of her small hometown in the Irish midlands. It was here beneath the statue of Our Lady, that she gave birth, alone, to her infant son. At around 4pm that day some children on their way home from school saw Ann's schoolbag on the ground and discovered her lying in the Grotto. They alerted a passing farmer who rushed to the nearby priest's house to inform him of the chilling discovery of Ann and her already deceased baby in the adjacent grotto. The priest's response to his request for help was; "It's a doctor you need". Ann, still alive but hemorrhaging heavily, was carried to the house of the Parish Priest from where a doctor was phoned. She was then driven in the doctor's car to her parents house in the centre of the town. By the point an ambulance arrived it was already too late. Ann Lovett and her child were quietly buried three days later in Granardkill cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann Lovett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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