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"http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/call-for-inquiry-into-deaths-at-tuam-mother-and-baby-home-1.1819188"
Thanks for the link. Not been reported here |
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By *imwildWoman
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"http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/call-for-inquiry-into-deaths-at-tuam-mother-and-baby-home-1.1819188
Thanks for the link. Not been reported here"
Really!! its been reported worldwide too An inquiry is going ahead. Sad story and so many more is going to come out of it. |
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Sickens me...and knowing this bloody country probably many more mass graves yet to be uncovered...it's those poor women that were left with no babies and life ruined ... |
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"http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/call-for-inquiry-into-deaths-at-tuam-mother-and-baby-home-1.1819188
Thanks for the link. Not been reported here
Really!! its been reported worldwide too An inquiry is going ahead. Sad story and so many more is going to come out of it. "
I lie. It's just coming up on the bbc and nationals the past couple if days. Nowhere near as much coverage as you guys are seeing. Tbh this thread was the first I'd heard.
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By *imwildWoman
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Just to clarify this has been known since 1975. It was funding for a memorial that brought it to media.
A committee has been setup and a campaign is underway to erect a memorial to commemorate the deaths of 796 infants who were buried in an unmarked grave in Tuam, Co. Galway. This committee was established when it was made known the children were buried without recognition or headstones in a small section of the Dublin Road Estate where once stood the old orphanage called St. Mary’s (known locally as the ‘Home’). Our Committee wants to ensure that these children will be remembered and that their resting place will be recognised as such. Therefore we need the people of Tuam and hinterlands to become patrons to this project to help us achieve this goal. We feel that it is time that these children are given a proper resting place on consecrated ground, documented as such on Ordnance Survey Maps and mapping of graveyards.
Our committee wishes to mark the site with a plaque inscribed with all the children’s names, date of death and age; marking the entrance accordingly; devise a brochure so that the public will know where to find the graveyard and hold a remembrance mass for all of the children who rest there.
The infants were buried without coffins in the grounds of a former Bons Secours home for unmarried mothers between 1925 and 1961.The unmarked grave was discovered accidentally in 1975.Death records show many of the infants died from malnutrition and infectious diseases.
The home was closed in the 1960s but in 1975 two boys were playing close to the site when they discovered partially broken concrete slabs covering a hollow – a disused septic tank, which had been in use prior to the 1920s when the building was a workhouse.The site is located at what was a mother and baby home, run by the Bon Secours, from the 1920s until the 1960s.
There was a high infant mortality rate over the 40-year period, with many of the children believed to have died from infectious diseases and possibly malnutrition. But there is no record of their burial. The campaign to erect a memorial has been gathering considerable force in recent months.
There is a €50,000 target to complete the entire project. This will include the erection of the memorial, garden landscaping, road and pathway. |
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"Just to clarify this has been known since 1975. It was funding for a memorial that brought it to media.
A committee has been setup and a campaign is underway to erect a memorial to commemorate the deaths of 796 infants who were buried in an unmarked grave in Tuam, Co. Galway. This committee was established when it was made known the children were buried without recognition or headstones in a small section of the Dublin Road Estate where once stood the old orphanage called St. Mary’s (known locally as the ‘Home’). Our Committee wants to ensure that these children will be remembered and that their resting place will be recognised as such. Therefore we need the people of Tuam and hinterlands to become patrons to this project to help us achieve this goal. We feel that it is time that these children are given a proper resting place on consecrated ground, documented as such on Ordnance Survey Maps and mapping of graveyards.
Our committee wishes to mark the site with a plaque inscribed with all the children’s names, date of death and age; marking the entrance accordingly; devise a brochure so that the public will know where to find the graveyard and hold a remembrance mass for all of the children who rest there.
The infants were buried without coffins in the grounds of a former Bons Secours home for unmarried mothers between 1925 and 1961.The unmarked grave was discovered accidentally in 1975.Death records show many of the infants died from malnutrition and infectious diseases.
The home was closed in the 1960s but in 1975 two boys were playing close to the site when they discovered partially broken concrete slabs covering a hollow – a disused septic tank, which had been in use prior to the 1920s when the building was a workhouse.The site is located at what was a mother and baby home, run by the Bon Secours, from the 1920s until the 1960s.
There was a high infant mortality rate over the 40-year period, with many of the children believed to have died from infectious diseases and possibly malnutrition. But there is no record of their burial. The campaign to erect a memorial has been gathering considerable force in recent months.
There is a €50,000 target to complete the entire project. This will include the erection of the memorial, garden landscaping, road and pathway."
Are you from Tuam, or is this a copy and paste? |
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