Tuam survivors group says ‘full horror’ of Mother and Baby Home ‘not yet exposed’
A survivors group has said that the “full horror” of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has not yet been exposed. The Tuam Home Survivors Network said that there cannot be closure on the issue until each one of the causes of deaths from the home are established. This comes after the Commission of Investigation […]
7 years ago
Irish production company are looking for people who were illegally adopted
An Irish production company are looking to speak to anyone who feels they may have been illegally adopted. In particular they are reaching out to those who were illegally adopted to the United Kingdom. They also wish to speak to any women who had their children illegally taken from them and later put up for […]
8 years ago
A powerful shrine is erected at Tuam to urge the Government to excavate the site
A public hearing was held on Monday.
8 years ago
Cork mother and baby home children buried in unmarked graves as late as 1990
The Bessborough Home was run between 1922 and 1998.
9 years ago
You have to watch this documentary on Ireland’s Mother and Baby Scandal on TV3 TONIGHT
It doesn’t bear thinking about. Except it does. TV3 will broadcast a shocking documentary which looks into the true scale of the scandal involving Mother and Baby homes this evening. Following the horrific discovery of a mass grave in Tuam last week which contained the bodies of as many as 800 babies, TV3’s documentary will look into the […]
10 years ago
COMMENT Tuam’s tiny victims had no voice then – which is why we must shout for them now
Joseph Ward was aged just seven months when he died in 1928. Mary Teresa Drury was a year old when she died in 1931. In 1937, Mary Kate Cahill was two weeks old when she died. In 1943, a baby died a day after being born – and is known now simply as Baby McNamara. […]
10 years ago