Under the house of good rescue and there, in neighboring land, there are the remains of almost 800 children. No official burial. No plaque. No memorial.
Nothing until 2014, when Catherine Corlessa historic amateur, discovered the evidence of one common pitpotentially in a former waste water tank, which is believed to contain hundreds of children in Tuam, in the county of Galwayin the west of Ireland. Today we finally start digging.
Investigators moved their tools to the anonymous Prato next to a children’s playground in a residential complex in the city. A excavation that should last two years. The area is once where the house of the children of St Mary stood, an institution managed by the church that hosted thousands of women and children between 1925 and 1961.
In those years, many women had remained pregnant outside the wedding And for this they had been marginalized by families or, worse, separated from their children after childbirth. Patrick dictates He was the first newborn to die at St Mary’s, in 1925, just five months; Mary Cartyof the same age, it seems to have been the last in 1960. In the 35 years spent among their dead, it is thought that another 794 babies and children died there And that they are buried in what the former Irish premier Enda Kenny called the place of horrors.
The truth came out only thanks to Corless’s tenacity, which he searched among the County documents And he had not stopped in the face of the indifference that he had welcomed his research. Catherine remembers the house of good rescue well, with high walls on which glass shards were skewered and from which the boys and girls who frequented the school of the country came out.
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In the seventies, some children who were playing in a field adjacent to what was once the reception house, they come across a pile of bone remains by chance. The discovery upsets the community, which decides to erect a small sanctuary on the site, transforming it into a point of recollection and prayer. It begins to guess that under that building, once hospitalized for mothers and children, a hidden cemetery was actually found.
About fifteen years ago, Catherine Corless is the death certificates of about 800 children. The causes of death range from infectious diseases such as measles and pertussis to apparently less serious pathologies, such as simple laryngitis or unsuitable infections. No document, however, attested its burial.
In 2014 the Irish government established a commission of investigation and, three years later, in 2017, the existence of a common pit was confirmed right under the former structure.
Today, finally, those little bodies will be able to receive the dignity that for too long has been denied them.
