Mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, County Galway
Last week the Irish government published a 2,865 page report about dismal conditions in mother and baby homes between 1922 and 1998. The report found that about 9,000 children died, which was about 15 percent of the 57,000 children who passed through the institutions. Most of the children had been born out of wedlock – “illegitimate”, in the parlance of the time.
The levels of mortality were “appalling”, the report said, for the rate was far in far in excess of children brought up by their own parents.
Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin, who made a formal apology to survivors of the homes, said the report shed light on a “a dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history”. “This detailed and highly painful report,” he told the Dáil (Parliament), “is a moment for us as a society to recognise a profound failure of empathy, understanding and basic humanity over a le
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