The small, run-down playground with its swings and football goalposts could be in any town. But it is in Tuam, in the west of Ireland, and its concrete and grass conceal evidence of the horrors ...

TUAM, Ireland (AP) — This story begins with a forbidden fruit. It was the 1970s in this small town in the west of Ireland when an orchard owner chased off two boys stealing his apples. The youngsters ...

Excavations have begun at a former church-run home in Tuam, Ireland, where 800 children may be buried. The home closed in 1961; a mass grave was found in a sewage system in 2014. Experts will study ...

Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of infants and young children. The planned ...

Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home — one of several that once operated across the country. The burial site, which could hold the ...

A second baby graveyard has been found at the site of a maternity home for unwed mothers run by Catholic nuns in Ireland, where the remains of almost 800 infants are feared to be buried. “Consistent ...

Only one stone wall remains of the old mother and baby home in this town, but it cast a shadow over all of Ireland. Historian Catherine Corless stands July 7 in a cemetery in Tuam, Ireland. Corless ...