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The "unique and incredibly complex excavation" at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home is expected to take roughly 24 months.
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. It was her discovery of the unmarked ...
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The Tuam home was one of 10 institutions in which about 35,000 unmarried pregnant women are thought to have been sent. A child died there, on average, almost every two weeks between the mid-1920s ...
The Irish government publishes draft legislation which would allow excavation at the mass grave. ... Tuam home survivors visiting a shrine for the Tuam babies last year. By Eimear Flanagan.
Infant mortality in Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s was in the region of 70 per 1,000 or 7 per cent, as high as countries in sub-Saharan Africa have now.
Tuam home babies is not the last Irish scandal - it's just the beginning More dark allegations of Irish government sending immigrant children abroad for abortions. Sinead O'Shea ...
Human remains were found at the Tuam mother and baby home in 2017 A public inquiry into Irish mother and baby homes has said there "must be" people in County Galway who "know more" about residents ...
Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish Times . Sarah Burns. Thu Feb 07 2019 - 16:00. ... Michael was born in the Tuam mother and baby home on February 15th, 1948.
TUAM, Ireland. Behold a child. A slight girl all of 6, she leaves the modest family farm, where the father minds the livestock and the mother keeps a painful secret, and walks out to the main road.
An Irish language report on Irish week in Tuam in Galway. Report shows pupils preparing poster and projects in Christian Brothers school. Posters on Tuam. Interview Tony Claffey, teacher on the ...