It is scheduled to reveal a calm patch of grass in the center of an Irish housing property of the latest disturbing chapter in the “Mother and Child” scandal in Ireland.
Under the ground in this quiet spot in the town of Tuam, about 130 miles to the west of Dublin, large quantities of human remains were identified.
The land, associated with a home run by nuns between 1925 and 1961, was left without it to a large extent after the Foundation was demolished in 1972.
But on Monday, the excavation sets will close the site before starting to search for the remains of next month.
“There are many children, and the children who were ignored here,” local historian Catherine Corles told AFP at the site.
It was the discovery of the unique mass burial site that led to the Irish Investigation Committee in the so -called mother and child homes.
In 2014, the 71 -year -old presented evidence that 796 children, from newborns, to a nine -year -old child, died at Tuam and Baby Home.
Her research referred to the final resting place that is likely to have children: an abandoned input tank discovered in 1975.
Corles said: “There are no burial records for children, no cemetery, no statue, no cross, and nothing at all.”
In the year 2022, the legislation was approved in Parliament, allowing excavation work to start Tuam.
“It was a fierce battle, when I started this no one wants to listen, we finally make mistakes,” said Corles.
She added: “I was only pleading: I took out the children from this sewage system and gave them the decent Christian burial that was denied.”
In the results published in 2021, the investigation committee found “disturbing” levels of infant mortality in institutions.
Pregnant women outside the framework of marriage were made in the so -called parent homes by society, the state and the Catholic Church, which historically held an iron grip on Irish positions.
After childbirth, mothers were separated from their children, often through adoption.
Inquiries supported by the country that were ignited by Tuam discoveries found that 56,000 unmarried women and 57,000 children have passed by 18 homes over 76 years.
The committee's report concluded that 9,000 children died in homes throughout Ireland.
The Church and the state often worked alongside the operation of institutions, which are still working in Ireland in 1998.
The houses were operated in different ways – some of them are fired and managed by local health authorities and others through Catholic religious orders such as the Bonn Sikors nuns who managed Tom.
“All of these children and children have deliberately, but the Church still turns a blind eye. It was not important, they were illegal, and this is the position they took,” Corles said.
Determine the analysis on TUAM in 2016 and 2017 Human remains in underground cavities. The investigation committee later concluded that they were in an abandoned sewage tank.
But in the year 2022, the legislation was approved in Parliament, allowing works to start from there.
For Anna Kurgan, 70, who was in the mid -fifties when she learned that her late mother had a secret to religion, John and William, in Tam, the slow process was “justice, in the Irish style”.
Due to the lack of death certificate at all for Lilim, John's death has not been approved medically, the few official documents were able to reach more questions than answers.
In her kitchen, Agence France Presse showed a copy of the 1947 inspection report of Tuam Home.
John described it as a “miserable child”, although he was born in good health a year ago.
Both can be buried in Tuam, according to Corrigan, while William may have been adopted illegally outside the country.
She said, “They prevent, and they are bothering, and they make it difficult for people to reach the truth.”
She said: “There are small dirty secrets in Ireland that must remain hidden. Ireland has a healthy reputation around the world, but there is also a dark, bad aspect,” she said.
A team was finally appointed in 2023 to lead the TUAM exploration, which is charged with recovery, reporting and re -souvenirs that were recovered on the site as soon as the work begins.
A sample of DNA will be taken from people who have reasonable reasons to believe that they are close.
“I never thought that I would see the day that we will overcome in many obstacles – pushing them to dig what I call” the hole “, not a grave.
She said, “I am happy because it started, but if we can find a certain amount, it will not give us everything.”
