The home at Tuam was never called a Mother and Baby Home. Its official name was St. Mary’s Children’s Home and in all the historical sources it is referred to as Tuam Children’s Home or simply as the children’s home. It has been falsely renamed as a Mother and Baby Home to bolster the falsehood that children were abused and murdered because the women running the home “hated bastards”. It is an argument which is not based on historical evidence.
Soon after the Tuam story went global in 2014, University College Dublin's Professor of Modern History, Diarmaid Ferriter, wrote ‘the Read more
Yet another carbuncle has been added to the corpus of Ireland’s mother and baby homes saga. In a recent judgement, Read more
Anna Corrigan has no competent medical knowledge and has fabricated a story about the Tuam Children's home. Former advisor to Read more
Despite newspaper reports that Ireland was once a ‘deeply misogynistic’ society, the word makes only one appearance in the commission’s Read more
