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'Discarded': Mass Grave Excavation Uncovers Ireland's Dark History of Child Burials
- In 2023, a team was designated to oversee the excavation at the former mother and baby home site in Tuam, County Galway, with the aim of recovering human remains and establishing a memorial.
- This followed legislation passed in 2022 enabling excavation work, after discoveries since 2014 revealed a mass burial and a 2021 commission found disquieting infant mortality at such homes.
- The site, linked to a home run by nuns between 1925 and 1961 and demolished in 1972, contained significant human remains in underground cavities identified in 2016 and 2017 analyses.
- Local historian Catherine Corless uncovered evidence of 796 child deaths at Tuam, highlighting the absence of burial records, graves, or any form of memorial for the children. She recalled the early challenges she faced when her findings were largely ignored but expressed that progress is now being made to address these historical injustices.
- The excavation's start signals efforts to address Ireland's hidden past, but Corless cautioned that identifying remains may not provide closure for all affected families.
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‘Dirty little secrets’: Ireland to begin long-awaited excavation of mother and baby home ‘mass grave’ site
TUAM (Ireland), June 15 — A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland’s “mother and baby” home scandal. Beneath the ground at this peaceful spot in the town of Tuam, 135 miles (220 kilometres) west of Dublin, significant quantities of human remains have been identified. The land, attached to a home run by nuns between 1925 and 1961, was left largely untouched a…
‘Mass grave’ excavation to finally start at Irish mother and baby home
A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland's "mother and baby" home scandal. Beneath the ground at this peaceful spot in the town of Tuam, 135 miles (220 kilometres) west of Dublin, significant quantities of human remains have been
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'Mass grave' excavation to finally start at Irish mother and baby home
A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland's "mother and baby" home scandal.
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