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Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...
When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a ...
"In stories published June 3 and June 8 about young children buried in unmarked graves after dying at a former Irish ...
Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense ...
Nearly 800 infants may have died in maternity home run on behalf of government by Sisters of Bon Secours from 1925 to 1961 ...
Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 ...
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 ...
Team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts begins excavating to identify remains of about 800 children.
Excavations begin today of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...
A local historian’s research led the Irish government to find an unmarked mass grave with remains of about 800 children.
Research in 2014 by local historian, Catherine Corless, found that there were no burial records for the infants and toddlers. As the children of mothers who were generally unmarried, they were deemed ...