Tim Ekue Brannigan was one of the only black boys who would be adopted from a Belfast orphanage. He would spend days in the presence of Peggy Brannigan and she could no longer take having to give him back to the orphanage each week, so she decided to take him home forever. But there was something much deeper lying just beneath the surface of the story. Tim was really her son, she just couldn’t tell anyone the truth. Eventually, this mother found a way to beat all the odds and take home her black child in the midst of a very racist community.
See how this mother-and-son duo proved that love conquers all.
Penny Brannigan
Penny Brannigan was a lovely Irish woman who, like most of the women in the 60’s, was married young and already had a few kids. But after 10 years of marriage, she was no longer happy. Her husband, Tom, was a deliveryman who sometimes sang part time for a show band. But he was also a philanderer, having cheated on her too many times and she got tired of his womanizing ways.
