796 children’s bodies were found in a mass grave. BBC podcast focuses on St Mary’s mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Galway and the appalling tale of abuse and criminality uncovered by amateur historian Catherine Corless.
Anna Corrigan’s two older brothers were born and said to have died in the Co Galway home. She has said she will seek a High Court injunction if the Government does not excavate the site.
Tressa Reeves was allowed just eights short hours with her first-born son when she gave birth in a Dublin home run by Catholic nuns. Her son was given away to an Irish family and it took a 50-year hunt for her to track him down again.
Former Maine police officer Kevin Battle always knew he was adopted but did not know that he had been forcibly taken from his mother in Ireland when she attempted to escape from a Mother and Baby Home.
Today we remember the rebellious and kind Monsignor Edward Joseph Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, Nebraska, who was born in Leabeg, County Roscommon on this day (July 13) 1886.
Book review: "The Adoption Machine" by Paul Jude Redmond - Ireland, from the year it received it's independence in 1922, set the global standard for the mistreatment of single women and girls aged from 12 to 48, as well as the neglect or cruel mistreatment of their babies.
Irish Minister for Children Katherine Zappone confirmed that the a new technical report has outlined five possible future options for the Tuam Mother and Baby Home site.
