An amateur historian posited children had been buried in "a sewage tank." A government commission investigated her claims.

Officials in Ireland are starting work to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies ...

Monday marked the start of an excavation of horrific proportions in Ireland. That marked the beginning of excavation work at ...

Catherine Corless, the historian who found the gravesite of nearly 800 babies and children beneath an Irish home for unwed ...

Excavation has begun on a septic tank at a site in Ireland that authorities believe contains the remains of nearly 800 dead ...

The "unique and incredibly complex excavation" at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home is expected to take roughly 24 months.

A 2021 report found 9000 children died in Ireland's mother-and-baby homes.

Image: 'We need to know from that dirty, ugly place what happened there,' Annette McKay says For Annette, now 71, Tuam is emblematic of a different time in Ireland. "We locked up victims of rape ...

The long-awaited excavation at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway in western Ireland, is part of a reckoning in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country with a ...

Many of the infant remains are feared to have been dumped in the cesspool known as “the pit” at the former institution in the small town of Tuam ... of oppression in Ireland, the true extent ...

Over a decade since a historian discovered an unmarked mass burial site for children at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland, workers finally began on Monday to ...