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

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

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

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

Team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts begins excavating to identify 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 ...

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

Nothing until 2014, when an amateur historian uncovered evidence of a mass grave, potentially in a former sewage tank, ...

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 ...

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