Tuam (/ ˈtjuːəm /; Irish: Tuaim [ˈt̪ˠuəmʲ], [8] meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway. It is west of the midlands of Ireland, about 35 km (22 …

Jul 14, 2025 · A full-scale forensic excavation is now underway at a site in Tuam, County Galway in Ireland, where the remains of nearly 800 infants and young children are believed to be buried in an …

Jul 14, 2025 · Read more from the survivors, relatives and campaigners who helped reveal the secret of Tuam after a decades-long wait for the truth.

Jul 13, 2025 · The Tuam institution was one of dozens of “homes” where pregnant girls and unmarried women were sent to give birth in secret for much of the 20th century.

St Mary’s Home operated in Tuam, County Galway, from 1925 until 1961. A religious order ran the institution, at a time of moral taboos when there was a social stigma around pregnancies outside of...

Oct 28, 2017 · The Tuam case incited furious condemnation of a Catholic Church already weakened by a litany of sexual abuse scandals.

Jun 16, 2025 · The long-awaited excavation at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway in western Ireland, is part of a reckoning in an overwhelmingly Roman …

Dec 12, 2025 · Tuam, chief market town of the northern part of eastern County Galway, Ireland. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop, the see having been founded by St. Jarlath (c. 550), and the …

Jul 8, 2025 · In the aftermath of the government investigation into mother and baby homes and the discovery in Tuam, the Irish government announced in 2018 that the bodies of the 796 infants would …

Jun 16, 2025 · A long-awaited forensic excavation has officially begun at the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, where the remains of almost 800 infants and young children are believed to …