Abused as a child | Margaret's story

Testimony // Identity // Anger // Forgiveness // Reconciliation

A woman stands by the shore under a cloudy sky, reflecting on the calm water and distant mountains.

From the age of three, Margaret McGuckin was regularly verbally and physically abused at a children’s home in Northern Ireland, until she was told by one of the nuns she had to leave aged just eleven. This is Margaret’s astonishing, transformational story of how she went from being an angry young woman in prison, to be the leader of a charity set up to give a voice to victims of historic abuse in Northern Ireland.