Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a ...

The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense ...

Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 ...

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 ...

Excavations begin today of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...

Mother-and-baby homes' were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were ...

The historian discovered that the mortal remains of 796 children and babies who died at the St Mary's mother and baby home ...

A full forensic excavation on the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, began on Monday morning.

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