Workers began excavating the site of a former church-run home for unmarried woman and their babies in western Ireland on Monday, in a long-awaited effort to recover the remains of around 800 infants and young children who died there.
The excavation at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, marks another step in Ireland’s reckoning with the legacy of abuse in church-run institutions in what was once an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country.
