A decade ago, while researching the past of a long-closed home for unwed mothers here in Tuam, County Galway, she came upon problematic math. At least 798 children had died in the St. Mary’s ...

Her research revealed that 796 babies and young children were "indecently buried in a defunct sewage system" in Tuam between 1925 and 1961. "I naively thought then that my work was done. Now sure ...

796 children’s bodies were found in a mass grave. BBC podcast, "The Home Babies" focuses on St. Mary’s mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Galway and the appalling tale of abuse and criminality ...

She also discovered both boys were born while her mother was a resident of the Tuam mother and baby home in County Galway. Anna has spent the past eight years trying to confirm their fate.

It is “very likely” many of the remains of 796 babies and toddlers, buried at the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, will never be identified, the man leading the ...

The burial site at Tuam mother-and-baby home in County Galway "Significant quantities" of human remains have been discovered at the site of a former mother and baby home in County Galway.

The grave in Tuam was found nearly 40 years ago, but was initially thought to be from the 1850s famine. Archbishop of Tuam Michael Neary said he was "greatly shocked" by the news. "I was greatly ...

A Cork native and a graduate of the University of Galway, I was working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon when I heard about Tuam. I was involved in the ICRC’s ...

Excavations at the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, will be very complex and it will be impossible to say how long they will take, according to an archaeologist who was first on the ...

By Dan Barry Reporting from Tuam, Ireland The tiny shoe is the color of the open sky. Its blueness is made all the bluer by the dark earth filling the space meant for a young child’s foot.