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THE excavation on the grounds of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home began on Monday, 100 years after it was first established in ...
The Health Service Executive has said it has no burial records for the 80 children who died at Galway hospital having been admitted from the Tuam mother and baby home during its operation. Research ...
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense ...
A local historian’s research led the Irish government to find an unmarked mass grave with remains of about 800 children.
Irish Examiner podcast explores how local research into a hidden burial site sparked international outrage and official ...
Ireland is opening a new chapter of its dark past as experts begin to dig for the remains of babies and children of unwed ...
The daughter of a woman whose child died in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of excavation work at the site in Co Galway.
Babies discarded in a septic tank by Catholic priests and nuns 80 years ago will finally receive a dignified burial. Hundreds ...
Mother-and-baby homes' were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were ...
In the small Irish town of Tuam, Ireland, nearly 800 babies and young children disappeared — their remains hidden in a septic tank beneath a housing estate. Decades later, families are still searching ...
Excavators have begun work at St. Mary's Mother-and-Baby Home in Tuam where unmarried pregnant women were sent to give birth ...