She said: 'My mother told a relative she wasn't going to leave her tenement flat here in Dublin in case he was looking for her'.Ī Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby homes was established following the work of historian Catherine Corless who uncovered the names of the babies and Alison O'Reilly, who exposed the story, which concluded in January this year.

While Anna Corrigan whose mother had two baby boys in the home, who are believed to be dead, said she wants the truth of what happened to her siblings and believes one of them, baby William was illegally adopted to the USA. Survivor Pat Duffy described how he had memories of the institutions, and how he suffered beatings if he wet the bed, while the nuns pulled his ears and made him eat off the floor. Survivors from the home which was run by the Bons Secours nuns, have also hit out at how they were treated at the hands of the nuns. McCullough has backed calls for the site to be fully excavated saying the hoarding she and her team placed around the site following their work was only ever a 'temporary measure' which was meant to only be in place for six months. They are yet to be exhumed as the government thrashes out the Burials Bill.ĭr. She and her team found 'a significant quantity of human remains' in 18 to 20 of the chambers on the grounds of the green site in the middle of the Dublin Road Housing estate. In tonight's film, Dr Niamh McCullough, Consultant Forensic Archaeologist who carried out test excavations at the site of the grave in Galway in 20, said she has never 'walked away' from any grave like this. In 2014, it was revealed by our newsroom journalist Alison O'Reilly that 796 children had died in the religious run former mother and baby home where thousands of women were thousands of unmarried mothers were incarcerated from 1921 - 1961.

The Missing Children was shot in Ireland, the UK and US over a four year period, highlighting the stories of the survivors and families of the children who died at the Tuam home.

My Name Is Bridget by Alison O'Reilly