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The Tuam mother and and baby home was run by nuns between 1925 and 1961 For the next 36 years it houses unmarried mothers and their children during a period when. Historian Brian Nugent exposes the many lies and misunderstandings surrounding Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

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The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was set up following claims that 796 babies were interred in an unmarked mass grave at the former.

. Excavations at the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam County Galway have uncovered an underground structure divided into 20 chambers. Nuns threw live babies in to septic tanks. The event was held to. 800 bones were found in a septic tank in Tuam.

The Bon Secours role in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home may have ended when it was closed suddenly in 1961 but it was forty years later that they left behind the evidence of perhaps the. A couple of years ago in an Interview with 4FM at the Mother and Baby home site in Tuam we were at pains to point out the complicity of GCC in covering up what was the now renowned. Mother and baby homes were usually overcrowded with poor infection controls and the commission found many Tuam deaths were due to diseases like TB flu. In 1975 two young boys were playing football and other games at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in the town of Tuam County Galway when they found an underground hole.

A SURVIVOR OF Tuam mother and baby home has criticised the fact he is unable to access records related to his older sister who spent time in another institution as a. ON the night that Hurricane Debbie swept its dark and stormy way across the four corners of Ireland a tumult of another kind raged in the heart of Tuam. In 2014 amateur historian Catherine Corless discovered the mass unmarked grave of 796 children at the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam Co Galway. The list below compiled by Catherine Corless lists the 796 children who died at the Tuam mother and baby home between 1925 and 1960 and 6 women who are also missing.

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By 2013 she found death certificates of 796 children. RTÉ is not responsible for the content of external. Mothers were forced to be. Catherine Corless exposed the secret burials of children at a former mother and baby home in Tuam County Galway.

RTÉie is the website of Raidió Teilifís Éireann Irelands National Public Service Media. File photo dated 04062014 of local historian Catherine Corless at the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home Galway Image. The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam Michael Neary said that he was horrified by the confirmation that significant quantities of human remains were buried on the site of a former mother and. Nuns buried dead babies in septic tanks without a funeral.

Western Correspondent The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam has attended a gathering at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in the town. On that September 16.