Two boys discovered the grave a half-century ago but the true horror was not known until a local historian began digging into ...

Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home. It's one of several that once operated across the country.

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 ...

Two boys found "a jumble of bones", which sparked the discovery and now excavation of a mass grave at a mother-and-baby home ...

This story begins with a forbidden fruit. It was the 1970s in this small town in the west of Ireland when an orchard owner chased off two boys stealing his apples. The youngsters avoided being caught ...

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.

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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.