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Frank Berry’s film reconstructs Catherine Corless’s meticulous investigation into the Bon Secours mother and baby home in the Co Galway town
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Forensic facility and mortuary set up near mother and baby home site where excavation works began last year
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Monica Dolan plays mother and baby home historian Catherine Corless in Frank Berry’s film
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Operation seeking to identify children who died at St Mary’s home between 1925 and 1961
Human remains discovered during excavation of Tuam site
Five sets of skeletal remains are believed to predate mother and baby home as operation continues
Tuam excavation: more than 100 people come forward to give DNA
Samples have been taken from 18 elderly or vulnerable people to help identify any remains that may be found at former mother and baby home
Adult tooth only human remains found to date in early Tuam excavation
Excavation of site of former mother and baby institution began in July and is likely to take at least two years
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Tuam is a microcosm for Ireland’s history of discarded bones
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense
Excavation begins of site of Tuam mother and baby institution
Access to the entire site is now closed off to the public, with 24-hour security also in place
Tuam families can see ‘light at the end of a very long tunnel’
Children buried at former mother and baby home site ‘got no dignity in life and got no dignity in death’, sister says
Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children
Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order
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Irish Times reporter Órla Ryan reflects on the decade since Tuam mother and baby home revelations
How Tuam, synonymous with a dark side of Irish history, can finally ‘do the right thing’
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Catherine Corless: ‘I was told more often than not that I was giving Tuam a bad name’
Catherine Corless says the 796 children kept her going during ‘painful’ fight for justice
Work to excavate site of Tuam mother and baby home to begin in June
Almost 800 children could be buried at the site
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Excavation at former Tuam mother and baby home to be one of ‘most complex’ ever
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Woman was 70 when she found out her early years were spent in Tuam home
‘I’m terrified of the dark. I always feel that that goes back to the mother and baby home’
Mother and baby homes commission accused of ‘disrespect’
Survivor say evidence was misrepresented and call for accountability of commission
Order behind Tuam home defends dealings with commission
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