IRELAND
Newser
By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff
Posted Jun 10, 2014
(NEWSER) – The story went that the remains of 800 babies were found in an Irish septic tank—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that things are more complicated. Yes, 796 babies died at St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Ireland between 1925 and 1961. But “some of the headlines that went abroad internationally were quite horrendous and gave a very mistaken impression of what actually happened,” says Irish education minister Ruairi Quinn. Indeed, historian Catherine Corless now tells the Irish Times she “never said to anyone that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank.” But she “still believe(s) those bodies are there in that general area.”
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