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In recent years, the name of Tuam has become synonymous with an Ireland of the past - a place which treated children born outside of marriage, and the women who gave birth to them, as problems that ...
Officials in Ireland are starting work to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies ...
A 2021 report found 9000 children died in Ireland's mother-and-baby homes.
Over a decade since a historian discovered an unmarked mass burial site for children at a former mother and baby home in ...
The "unique and incredibly complex excavation" at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home is expected to take roughly 24 months.
Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, has begun. The preparatory phase, which will last around four weeks, comes before the full-scale ...
Many babies and young children were buried without a proper funeral or marked grave at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby ...
The entire burial site of the Tuam babies will be forensically sealed off and monitored around the clock, as specialist teams prepare for Ireland’s first exhumation of a mass grave next month.
Pre-excavation work on the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam will start on Monday. Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam (ODAIT ...