Irish Survivors

We provide dedicated support to those that experienced traumatic and stressful episodes to get their lives back on track.

This is a new full time specialist advice information and support service for Irish survivors, including those survivors that were residents in the controversial Irish Mother and Baby Home Institutions.

Services & publications

Coventry Irish Society Midlands Irish Survivors Service


This is a new full time specialist advice information and support service for Irish Survivors including those that were resident in an Irish Mother and Baby Home Institution.


The Service is open Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4.00pm telephone 0247 625 6629. Ask for the CIS Manager Simon McCarthy or email simon.mccarthy@covirishsoc.org.uk


The service supports Irish Survivors with their applications for compensation to the new Redress Scheme for former residents of the Republic of Ireland Mother and Baby Homes.


We will also help you obtain your personal records and help with your general health and welfare needs.

Here to help

The Society has a dedicated team of staff to provide whatever help, support and signposting you need.

Report: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes


The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters was established by the Irish Government in February 2015.


Its purpose was to provide a full account of what happened to vulnerable women and children in Mother and Baby Homes during the period 1922 to 1998.


It submitted its final report to the Minister on 30 October 2020. See details here >


The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Caranua) is now closed.


For further information you can visit the Irish Times- Caranua advisory page. See details here >

Counselling support

This service is also available for Irish Survivors.

Please see The Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy Service website or call 0121 666 7707

Compensation Scheme for Magdalene Laundries women


Following publication of the report of the Inter Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries, the Government commissioned a review, including recommendations of what criteria should be applied in assessing the help that the Government can offer, financially or otherwise, to the women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen Laundries and in the laundries operated in the Training Centre at Stanhope Street, Dublin and the House of Mercy Training School, Summerhill, Wexford.


The following sources provide additional information:



Please contact us for further information or help.

“The Coventry Irish Society supports the most vulnerable members of the Irish community in Coventry, and we also act as a ‘gateway’ to help them to access other community-based and mainstream services.”