the dead had been mostly buried in the 1950s, when the facility was one of more than a dozen in Ireland offering shelter to orphans, unmarried mothers and their children. The Tuam home closed in 1961.
the vast majority of children who died at the home were interred on the site in unmarked graves, a common practice at such Catholic-run facilities amid high child mortality rates in early 20th-century Ireland.
In the OP's case - quite a lot of research & not "I think" or "I hear".
I've seen the journal.ie & while it's fitting that those infants are acknowledged,hopefully identified & given a proper burial - you only have to read the comments to see the amount of hysterical, ill informed bull (like the OPs') that some people are printing.
jimgi: In the OP's case - quite a lot of research & not "I think" or "I hear".
I've seen the journal.ie & while it's fitting that those infants are acknowledged,hopefully identified & given a proper burial - you only have to read the comments to see the amount of hysterical, ill informed bull (like the OPs') that some people are printing.
Another sad chapter in Irish history.
Poverty and high mortality in orphanages in past times happened everywhere.
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