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Ireland: Waning faith

A memorial plaque is seen among vegetation in a corner of the grave site where Catherine Corless, a local historian from Tuam, claims to be the resting place of 796 children, most of them infants, who died between 1925 and 1961 at the ‘Home’, a old single mother and baby orphanage called St. Mary’s, run by Sisters of Bons Secours. The story that emerged from Corless’s research has been reported in recent weeks in dramatic headlines around the world, with many describing the site, used in the past as a septic tank for the orphanage, as a mass grave.

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A memorial plaque is seen among vegetation in a corner of the grave site where Catherine Corless, a local historian from Tuam, claims to be the resting place of 796 children, most of them infants, who died between 1925 and 1961 at the ‘Home’, a old single mother and baby orphanage called St. Mary’s, run by Sisters of Bons Secours. The story that emerged from Corless’s research has been reported in recent weeks in dramatic headlines around the world, with many describing the site, used in the past as a septic tank for the orphanage, as a mass grave.
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