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 ...

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

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

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

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

At the Tuam facility—where young, unmarried women and girls were sent to deliver babies—some of the deceased infants were ...

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

The instituition housed women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and been shunned by their families. Read more at ...

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