Posts Tagged ‘Tuam mother and baby home’

Hundreds of dead infants found at Irish convent

Monday, March 6th, 2017

Hundreds of dead infants’ remains have been found buried in sewers at an Irish convent. The was used as a home for unmarried mothers in Tuam, Ireland for several decades. It was closed in the early 1980s. The find has backed up a historian’s claim that up to 800 children may lie in an unmarked Read more

Doubt cast on aspects of Irish child deaths stories

Friday, June 20th, 2014

Aspects of the media frenzy that 796 bodies of Irish children were supposedly dumped by nuns in a disused septic tank are lacking hard evidence. A media storm followed the reported discovery of the remains of hundreds of children from a mother and baby home run by the Bon Secours nuns in Tuam in Ireland Read more