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Louth native Oran Finegan has worked at the sites of some of the world’s most horrific atrocities, including the aftermath of ...
An estimated 796 babies and children are believed to have been buried at the site of the St Mary's home in Tuam, County ...
The story of the Tuam Babies sat quietly for the first week until the international media took hold of it, making it one of ...
A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and trying to identify the remains ...
It was not until her fifties that “only child” Anna Corrigan discovered she actually had two older brothers she never knew – and could never know.
Like other women who gave birth at the Tuam mother and baby home in Ireland, the nuns didn’t forbid O’Flaherty’s mother from seeing her newborn son again, they just didn’t tell her who her ...
In recent years, the name of Tuam has become synonymous with an Ireland of the past - a place which treated children born outside of marriage, and the women who gave birth to them, as problems that ...
Reporting from Tuam, Ireland. Published Dec. 14, 2022 Updated June 20, 2023. Listen to This Article. The tiny shoe is the color of the open sky.
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.
The memories of the “mother and baby” home at Tuam, operated by the Sisters of Bon Secours in Ireland from 1922 to 1961, known to him just as “The Home,” all came rushing back to Rodgers ...
STORY: Forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and identifying the remains of--about ...