The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.
In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.
Ummm this article is either old or this has happened multiple times now and I am really not going to investigate further myself because I want to go to bed unsad tonight.
It appears that this is a new article with updated details on a news story that’s been evolving for a decade. So, it’s the same one you’ve heard about before, just with a bit of new information.
Yeah, it’s an old story. What’s new is they’ve started excavating it.
The article is new because the excavation just started, the home operated between 1920 and 1961. But it has happened in multiple locations in the UK. So, all of the above.
Ireland is not in the UK.
June 17, 2025… seems pretty new