A mass grave containing nearly 800 infants and young children is being excavated at a former mother and baby home in Ireland.

In the 1970s, two boys in Ireland discovered a pile of bones at a former mother and baby home. The mass grave, which could ...

The full excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway is under way. The exhumations will be carried out at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers, which ...

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In Tuam, the remains later confirmed by forensic analysis belonged to infants and toddlers ranging from around 35 weeks gestation to three years old, The Irish Times reported.

Not far from Tuam, a historic cottage in Knock, Milltown, where Dowling was born, lauds “a local lad who fled famine and found success in America,” Cunniffe said.