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A mass grave containing nearly 800 infants and young children is being excavated at a former mother and baby home in Ireland.
The full excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway is under way. The exhumations will be carried out at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers, which ...
In the 1970s, two boys in Ireland discovered a pile of bones at a former mother and baby home. The mass grave, which could ...
A TUAM mother and baby home survivor has recently met his brother for the first time – 30 years after being reunited with their mum. John Rodgers, 77, who was born in the Co Galway home, and ...
PODCAST: Horror story of 796 babies found in Tuam mass grave unraveled 796 children’s bodies were found in a mass grave. BBC podcast focuses on St Mary’s mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Galway ...
Geo resource failed to load. An investigative team from the New York Times looks at the Tuam babies scandal and how 796 children were buried in unmarked graves. Video: The New York Times ...
Registers from the Tuam mother and baby home for the 1930s, for the numbers of children who died in their first 12 months, were “similar to those recorded at Bessborough”, he said.
Even more remarkably, the HSE’s concerns about Tuam were so advanced by 2012, that senior management stated that the minister needed to be informed so a full State inquiry could be launched.
The Tuam mother and baby home should not be treated as an individual scandal, but as part of a national trafficking network that commodified people, says Conall Ó Fátharta.
Tuam graveyard fight – Thugs who started brawl at cemetery blasted as ‘disgusting’ as wooden crosses used as weapons Gary Meneely Published: 16:38, 23 Sep 2021 Updated: 17:06, 23 Sep 2021 ...
The Tuam home was one of several Irish institutions in which about 35,000 unmarried pregnant women are thought to have been sent.
The Tuam, Co Galway, home for unmarried mothers and their children operated from 1925 to 1961 and was run by the Bon Secours Sisters. Read More: PODCAST: Horror story of 796 babies found in Tuam ...