Lo scavo può rivelare come 796 bambini sono morti nella madre irlandese e nella casa
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/tuam-mother-baby-home-digging-fdl9n5cjj?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=ireland&utm_medium=story&utm_content=branded
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She is considered a national hero, but Catherine Corless was amused that her refusal to meet Pope Francis when he visited Ireland in 2018 attracted so much media attention.
“It was never about me,” said the 71-year-old arable farmer-turned-local historian. “It was about the babies. They didn’t matter in life. They didn’t matter in death — but they were all that mattered to me.”
On Monday, digging will finally begin at the Tuam mother and baby home where Corless uncovered the deaths and mass burial of 796 babies. An investigation prompted by her work found that 9,000 children died in similar homes across Ireland in the 20th century.
“I could never understand how anyone could turn a blind eye,” said Corless, for whom Monday marks some sort of personal closure. “This is all I have ever asked for, right from the beginning. These are baptised babies. We have to get them out.”
Corless said she began “naively dabbling” in local and family history after she discovered that her own mother, Kathleen, was born out of wedlock and subsequently fostered.
While doing a part-time history course in the nearby village of Kilkerrin, Co Galway, in 2011, she became interested in the local Tuam mother and baby home, which had closed down in 1961 and was demolished in 1972.
Run by the Bon Secours Sisters, a Catholic order of nuns, between 1925 and its closure, the home housed pregnant women and babies born to unmarried mothers — who found themselves subjected to huge stigma in Ireland at the time. It was only closed down due to the dilapidation of the building, rather than the current scandal.
Died from religious extremists
Just curious, how much of an effect has this had on the religiosity of the country? Has there been any recent acceleration in people leaving Catholicism?
I know it’s not the point of anything at all, but why on earth does it matter that ‘these were baptised babies’? They’re babies, it shouldn’t matter whether religion featured in their tiny lives or not.
Can we have this Catherine as our next president?
And what happens if the answer to all 796 isn’t simply “neglect”…?
Conclusion: Nuns aren’t medical experts or even novices and were given carte Blanche to do whatever the hell they wanted and the country just looked away
I know I’m getting mad ratioed for even asking but are all aborted babies incinerated? They are obviously not buried at some mass biohazard disposal site/landfill in france or similar, are they?
Christian love.
“may” doing a lot of work in this headline, and it’s phrased just right to get you to fill in all the blanks with personal imaginations.
Already happening all over this thread
Genuflecting to any Pope in Ireland, should be seen as ignorance
Remember the backlash against her when this came out? The usual suspects suddenly became septic tank experts. Arguing it wasn’t what she’d claim, and what it turned out it to be, but was a “water chamber” and other weasel-worded nonsense to deflect from the fact those evil bitch nuns dumped the corpses of babies and children in a septic tank.
The state ought to sue the *extremely* wealthy order responsible for this for every penny they have. They won’t, of course, but they should.
It’s nothing short of an absolution disgraceful national scandal on a horrific scale… along with all the other horrific national scandals on a horrific scale perpetrated by religious orders in this country. They should have *absolutely nothing* to do with children in this country whatsoever.
The death certs – ~~many~~ all freely available on [irishgenealogy.ie](http://irishgenealogy.ie)
[https://www.tuamhomesurvivors.com/about/tuam-baby-death-records](https://www.tuamhomesurvivors.com/about/tuam-baby-death-records)
Pick a name and see what it says. Measles, TB, bronchitis, epilepsy from birth
Here’s one page – [https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1926/04993/4362309.pdf](https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1926/04993/4362309.pdf) All ten entries are from the Home. Sister Hortense was going down with lists of deaths and John Shine was registering them.
I’d love to see Catherine Corless run for the Áras