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Catherine Corless

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Inside Ireland's unmarried mothers house of horrors - by historian whose discovery shocked the world: Church-run home 'didn't value illegitimate children', fed them 'bare minimum to survive' and 'dumped bodies in sewage system'

A baby died almost every fortnight, Catherine Corless said, with a 1947 report finding that as many as a quarter of the child residents died in a single year.

Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins

Excavation crews begin sealing off site in Tuam, Co Galway, before full-scale dig starts on 14 July

Preliminary work aimed at identifying the remains of nearly 800 infants is starting on the site in T…

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