In the 35 years between their deaths, another 794 babies and young children are known to have died there - and it is believed ...

Babies were buried, without coffins, one on top of the other in the 9ft-deep chambers of of a septic tank in Tuam, Galway ...

IT was not until her fifties that “only child” Anna Corrigan discovered she actually had two older brothers she never knew – ...

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

White Irish parents of black babies can’t sue IVF clinic The Irish parents of two children in Northern Ireland who were born with darker skin than their parents after a ...

Many mixed-race Irish people who grew up in Mother and Baby homes are still looking for answers about their families and their heritage. In the middle of the 20th century, thousands of students ...

Mass grave excavation begins at former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, where a historian found death certificates for nearly 800 children who died there between the 1920s and 1961.

As the daughter of a Black Irish woman who was born in one of Ireland’s infamous mother and baby homes, she is raising awareness about how those institutions hid away generations of mixed-race ...

Further north in Manhattan, in the mid-19th century, was Seneca Village, another community of Black and Irish residents. Located on what is now the perimeter of Central Park from W. 82nd to W ...