In the 1970s, two boys in Ireland discovered a pile of bones at a former mother and baby home. The mass grave, which could ...

A mass grave containing nearly 800 infants and young children is being excavated at a former mother and baby home in Ireland.

Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home. It's one of several that ...

TUAM, Ireland — This story begins with a forbidden fruit. It was the 1970s in this small town in the west of Ireland when an orchard owner chased off two boys stealing his apples.

Catherine Corless, who discovered that nearly 800 children died at a mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland, is seen with a ...

Prime Minister Micheál Martin issues a state apology. 2022 — Ireland passes the Institutional Burials Act, giving legal authority to excavate, recover, and identify remains from sites such as Tuam.

A mass grave containing the remains of nearly 800 infants and young children, some found within a defunct septic tank, has ...

The site, run by the Bon Secours Sisters, has forced Ireland and the Catholic Church to confront a legacy of shunning ...

Here is a timeline of developments related to Ireland’s network of mother and baby homes. 1846 — The Tuam workhouse opens on six acres to house 800 “inmates” who were destitute.

TUAM, Ireland — Only one stone wall remains of the old mother and baby home in this town, but it has cast a shadow over all of Ireland. A mass grave that could hold up to nearly 800 infants and ...