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31 July 2016

The mother behind the Galway children's mass grave story: 'I want to know who's down there'

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/mother-behind-galway-childrens-mass-grave-story