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

A local historian’s research led the Irish government to find an unmarked mass grave with remains of about 800 children.

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

Oppressive and misogynistic, the institutions -- which operated nationwide, some not closing until as recently as 1998 -- ...

THE excavation on the grounds of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home began on Monday, 100 years after it was first established in ...

- This June 4, 2014 file photo shows the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home, in Tuam ...

A woman whose sister was among the estimated 796 newborns secretly dumped in a septic tank beneath the St Mary's Mother and ...

The planned two-year probe by Irish and foreign experts in Tuam comes more than a decade after an amateur historian first ...

Tomorrow morning, an excavation will begin in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, which will likely provide a definitive ...

You'll never believe what was found in Ireland: a mass grave containing over 800 children. Discover the revelations that ...

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Nearly 800 babies died at St Mary’s in Tuam, a home for illegititmate children, who were left to die and then dumped as if ...