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 local historian’s research led the Irish government to find an unmarked mass grave with 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 full forensic excavation on the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, began on Monday morning.

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

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 ...

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