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7 March 2017

OMMENT Tuam’s tiny victims had no voice then - which is why we must shout for them now

Joseph Ward was aged just seven months when he died in 1928. Mary Teresa Drury was a year old when she died in 1931. In 1937, Mary Kate Cahill was two weeks old when she died. In 1943, a baby died a day after being born – and is known now simply as Baby McNamara.
Vincent Keogh was five months (1947); Patrick Hardiman was six months (1952); Imelda Halloran was two years old (1954); Gerard Connaughton was 11 months (1956), and Dolores Conneely was seven months (1959).