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"In stories published June 3 and June 8 about young children buried in unmarked graves after dying at a former Irish ...
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 ...
Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...
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 ...
Team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts begins excavating to identify remains of about 800 children.
Excavations begin today of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...
A full forensic excavation on the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, began on Monday morning.
A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and trying to identify the remains ...
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 ...