“Is it possible that a large number of those little children were buried in that little plot at the rear of the former Home?” she wrote. In all, seven children died at the mother and baby home in 1925, the year it opened. “Suffering, if you like.”But thoughts of the dead children of Tuam pushed Catherine beyond her fears. In the Bessborough home in Cork, 478 children died from 1934 to 1953 — or about one death every two weeks. Often lost in the uproar over the many children who died at the Tuam home were the stories of those who had survived.

Source: New York Times October 28, 2017 09:11 UTC