IRELAND
Daily Mail
By Fionn Hargreaves For Mailonline and Alison O’reilly For The Daily Mail
Historian Catherine Corless, 62, revealed that when she started to research into the deaths of almost 800 children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, she was told to ‘just leave them there’
The historian who spearheaded the campaign to discover the fate of 800 children who died at a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers and their children in Ireland was told ‘just leave them there’.
Catherine Corless, 62, discovered there were 798 death certificates for children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, but only one burial certificate.
But when she started researching in 2014, she was told that it wasn’t worth uncovering as it happened a long time ago.
She told the Irish Mirror: ‘The county council knew at the time that there were remains there, the guards knew it, the religious [orders] knew it and it was just all nicely covered in and forgotten about.
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