Why did Irish nuns secretly bury hundreds of babies in a septic tank? The scandal of the Tuam babies
The septic tank of a former Irish mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway has yielded the remains of hundreds of infants, a discovery that has shattered the nation’s conscience and 𝓮𝔁𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓭 a decades-long conspiracy of silence involving the Catholic Church and the Irish state. Local historian Catherine Corless, who first uncovered the scale … Read more