Ireland recovers remains of 99 infants from former Tuam mother and baby home

Ireland has now recovered the remains of 99 infants and children from the site of the former Tuam mother and baby home in County Galway, a place that has become a symbol of one of the darkest chapters in the country’s institutional history. The new discoveries, announced in a recent update, are part of an ongoing forensic excavation that is slowly bringing to light what happened to hundreds of babies who died there, and may, through DNA analysis, finally restore some of their names and identities, as per reports.The institution, officially known as the Tuam Mother and Baby Institution, was owned by Galway County Council and run by the Bon Secours Sisters, an order of Catholic nuns, between 1925 and 1961. It housed unmarried mothers and their children at a time when pregnancy outside marriage was heavily stigmatized in Ireland.