Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

For decades, 796 babies who died at a church-run home in Tuam, Ireland, lay in an unmarked grave — many possibly discarded in ...

Forensic experts in Ireland have begun a landmark excavation at the grounds of the former St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in ...

Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...

Ireland is opening a new chapter of its dark past as experts begin to dig for the remains of babies and children of unwed ...

Research in 2014 by local historian, Catherine Corless, found that there were no burial records for the infants and toddlers. As the children of mothers who were generally unmarried, they were deemed ...

Mother-and-baby homes' were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were characterised by harsh conditions, high mortality rates and a lack of ...

Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 ...

When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a ...