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  1. Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
  2. Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children, Ryan report states.
  3. Galway historian reveals truth behind 800 orphans in mass grave
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2014
    There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840's workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turned it into a Mother and Baby home for "fallen women." The long abandoned site made headlines around the world this week when it was revealed that a nearby septic tank contained the bodies of up to eight hundred infants and children, secretly buried without coffins or headstones on unconsecrated ground between 1925 and 1961.
  4. The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
    'I Want to Know Who's Down There'

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
  5. Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
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    Resource Type: Organization

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