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The long-awaited forensic excavation in the former ‘mother and baby’s house’, where the remains of nearly 800 babies and children are believed to be buried, will begin today at County Galway.
Many children who died at the institution in Tuam are believed to have been thrown into the former waste tank, known as “The Pit”, according to local historian Catherine Corless.
His tiring research revealed the death of 798 children at home for unmarried mothers between 1925 and their closure in 1961.
From them, only two were buried in the nearest cemetery. The remaining 796 is, considered, buried at the location.
“I feel very relieved,” the historian told Sky News when the excavation began.
“This is a long and long journey. Don’t know what will happen, if it will only be messy or if it really will happen.”
MS Corless Findings in 2014 Shocked Irish and became headlines throughout the world.
It exposed the dark stomach of a medieval Irish who was very adrift by Catholicism and his cruel attitude towards children who were illegitimate and women who gave birth to them, often sent to the homes of mothers and infants before being separated from their offspring.
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A decade later, the investigation team led by Daniel Macsweeney began a forensic excavation that could last for two years.
The aim is to identify as many remains as possible through DNA testing, and to give all dignified reburials.
The former building in Tuam – now destroyed. Pic: Pa
This is a glimmer of hope for people like Annette Mckay, who now lives in Manchester. His mother Margaret “Maggie” O’Connor gave birth to a baby girl in Tuam’s house in 1942 after being raped at the age of 17.
The girl, named Mary Margaret, died six months later. Annette remembers his late mother remembering how “He peeked and a nun appeared behind him and said ‘the son of your sins is dead’.”
Annette now hopes that the baby’s body can be dug in Tuam and placed to rest with Maggie. Margaret O’Connor reunited with his son.
“I don’t care whether it is a thimbleful, because they tell me that there will be no much leftover left; at the age of six months, especially cartilage more than bone. I don’t care whether it is a thimbleful for me to be able to make Mary Margaret with Maggie. That’s right.”
“We need to know from the dirty and ugly place that happened there,” said Annette Mckay
For Annette, now 71, Tuam is a symbol of a different time in Ireland.
“We locked the rape victims, we locked the victims of Inses, we locked victims of violence, we put them in the laundry, we brought their children, and we only handed it to the church to do what they wanted,” he said.
“My mother worked very pregnant, cleaning the floor and a nun kicked my stomach. And when the place was opened, their dirty and ugly secrets, it was no secret anymore.
“Out there. And we need to know from the dirty and ugly places that occur there. So first and especially, we want answers to that place.”
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The house was torn down and the grave site is now limited by the house
The Irish government made an apology for formal countries in 2021 after the investigation found the “terrible infant mortality rate” at the home of Irish mothers and babies, concluded that Around 9,000 children have died In 18 institutions were investigated.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin said at that time that “we had a true attitude -bent on sexuality and intimacy, and young mothers and sons and daughters were forced to pay a terrible price for that dysfunction”.
Sisters of Bon SECours, who have run Tuam’s house, offers “in -depth apologies”, acknowledge that children “are buried in an impolite and unacceptable way”, and offers financial compensation.
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As an excavation – which can last up to two years – starting on the Bon SECours website, the Tuam people are still wrestling with the humiliation and neglect that occurred in their city.
“I’m still trying to find out,” Ms Corless said. “I mean, this is a nursing congregation.
“The church preaching to maintain vulnerable, old and orphans, but they have never included invalid children for some reason in their own souls.
“I never understood how they could do that to small babies, small toddlers. Small children are vulnerable.”
