It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that
brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's
attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life
upside-down. Catherine
Corless spent eight months trying unsuccessfully to get people to pay
attention to the research she was doing on an institution for unmarried
mothers in Tuam, the Galway town where she grew up.
An amateur historian who had spent weeks scouring records in libraries, churches and council offices, she had uncovered the fact that, between 1925 and 1961, 796 children died in the St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, run by nuns from the Bon Secours order, but she was unable to find records of where they were buried. Last September she suggested that many of the bodies may have been put in a disused septic tank in a corner of the home's garden, a spot where boys had discovered a pile of children's skeletons in the 1970s.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/mother-behind-galway-childrens-mass-grave-story
An amateur historian who had spent weeks scouring records in libraries, churches and council offices, she had uncovered the fact that, between 1925 and 1961, 796 children died in the St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, run by nuns from the Bon Secours order, but she was unable to find records of where they were buried. Last September she suggested that many of the bodies may have been put in a disused septic tank in a corner of the home's garden, a spot where boys had discovered a pile of children's skeletons in the 1970s.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/mother-behind-galway-childrens-mass-grave-story