800 Lost Babies: The Tragedy of Tuam Mother and Baby Home

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Books: Belonging: A Memoir by Catherine Corless / My Name is Bridge by Anna Corrigan / The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes by Paul Jude Redmond How 100s of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwqnwrkd1go https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/15/how-were-babies-mass-graves-discovered-in-church-run-home-in-ireland 

 "Magdalene Laundries”: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/book-review-republic-of-shame-airing-irelands-dirty-linen-0bkpl23cj?region=global Timeline: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54693159 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/the-truth-about-the-magdalene-laundries-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-1.3900697 

Documentary maker interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI 

Interview with PJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioYc8g8YjY 

July 2025: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5440105/excavation-of-mass-grave-begins-at-a-notorious-home-for-unwed-mothers-in-ireland Call for release of records to victims: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/roderic-o-gorman-call-for-transparency-for-mother-and-baby-home-records-652g287wg Documentary about Ireland’s Catholic mother homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WOymf8u-s  

Ireland confronts it’s past with unwed mothers homes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28298236 

Man who found his mother: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/tuam-mother-and-baby-home-survivors-welcome-nui-galway-oral-history-project-7k7pdk5qf  Contact to send DNA, if you think you are related to a victim: https://www.live5news.com/2025/07/14/recovery-efforts-begin-recover-nearly-800-babies-believed-be-buried-septic-tank/ 

Survivors stories told: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/tuam-survivors-want-to-tell-stories-for-posterity-nvgk59cx0  

How bad it was to be u-wed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI Additional sources linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home#:~:text=In 1975, two boys, Franny,was assumed to be small. 

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