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

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In 1975, two young boys were playing when the ground gave way beneath them… As they fell through the broken up concrete into the hidden tank below.. their shock turned to horror as they realized - they had landed on top of a pile of tiny human bones.. Instead of the police, a priest was called - the site was blessed, the tank was sealed, and the secret was buried once more. No investigation, no answers.. and the truth of those buried below, would remain hidden for decades more…
►Sources:
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
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2018/0605/968383-magdalene-elizabeth-coppin/
https://www.grunge.com/340669/the-tragic-truth-about-irelands-magdalene-asylums/
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
https://researchrepository.universityofgalway.ie/server/api/core/bitstreams/309cf074-7e27-4c3e-912e-1e0b645605dc/content
Documentary maker interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI
Interview with PJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioYc8g8YjY
News Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FmtSDBV2hc
Excavation starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI
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.