EPISODE · Oct 2, 2025 · 36 MIN
800 Lost Babies: The Tragedy of Tuam Mother and Baby Home
from History and Hearsay · host Christina
Sources:Books: Belonging: A Memoir by Catherine Corless / My Name is Bridge by Anna Corrigan / The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes by Paul Jude Redmond How 100s of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwqnwrkd1go https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/15/how-were-babies-mass-graves-discovered-in-church-run-home-in-ireland "Magdalene Laundries”: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/book-review-republic-of-shame-airing-irelands-dirty-linen-0bkpl23cj?region=global Timeline: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54693159 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/the-truth-about-the-magdalene-laundries-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-1.3900697 Documentary maker interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI Interview with PJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioYc8g8YjY July 2025: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5440105/excavation-of-mass-grave-begins-at-a-notorious-home-for-unwed-mothers-in-ireland Call for release of records to victims: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/roderic-o-gorman-call-for-transparency-for-mother-and-baby-home-records-652g287wg Documentary about Ireland’s Catholic mother homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WOymf8u-s Ireland confronts it’s past with unwed mothers homes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28298236 Man who found his mother: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/tuam-mother-and-baby-home-survivors-welcome-nui-galway-oral-history-project-7k7pdk5qf Contact to send DNA, if you think you are related to a victim: https://www.live5news.com/2025/07/14/recovery-efforts-begin-recover-nearly-800-babies-believed-be-buried-septic-tank/ Survivors stories told: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/tuam-survivors-want-to-tell-stories-for-posterity-nvgk59cx0 How bad it was to be u-wed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI Additional sources linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home#:~:text=In 1975, two boys, Franny,was assumed to be small. Support the show
What this episode covers
Sources:Books: Belonging: A Memoir by Catherine Corless / My Name is Bridge by Anna Corrigan / The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes by Paul Jude Redmond How 100s of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwqnwrkd1go https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/15/how-were-babies-mass-graves-discovered-in-church-run-home-in-ireland "Magdalene Laundries”: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/book-review-republic-of-shame-airing-irelands-dirty-linen-0bkpl23cj?region=global Timeline: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54693159 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/the-truth-about-the-magdalene-laundries-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-1.3900697 Documentary maker interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI Interview with PJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioYc8g8YjY July 2025: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5440105/excavation-of-mass-grave-begins-at-a-notorious-home-for-unwed-mothers-in-ireland Call for release of records to victims: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/roderic-o-gorman-call-for-transparency-for-mother-and-baby-home-records-652g287wg Documentary about Ireland’s Catholic mother homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WOymf8u-s Ireland confronts it’s past with unwed mothers homes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28298236 Man who found his mother: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/tuam-mother-and-baby-home-survivors-welcome-nui-galway-oral-history-project-7k7pdk5qf Contact to send DNA, if you think you are related to a victim: https://www.live5news.com/2025/07/14/recovery-efforts-begin-recover-nearly-800-babies-believed-be-buried-septic-tank/ Survivors stories told: https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/tuam-survivors-want-to-tell-stories-for-posterity-nvgk59cx0 How bad it was to be u-wed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7em6aB4aeI Additional sources linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home#:~:text=In 1975, two boys, Franny,was assumed to be small. Support the show
NOW PLAYING
800 Lost Babies: The Tragedy of Tuam Mother and Baby Home
No transcript for this episode yet
Similar Episodes
Dec 5, 2025 ·50m
Oct 9, 2025 ·33m
Oct 3, 2025 ·40m
Sep 11, 2025 ·31m
Aug 27, 2025 ·39m
Aug 18, 2025 ·54m