ODAIT began excavating the site of the former St Mary's mother-and-baby institution in July. In its first update, published ...

In 2012, after years of research, amateur historian Catherine Corless published an astonishing story in a local history journal detailing that 798 children had died at St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home ...

A halt to coroner-requested autopsies at University Hospital Waterford could delay families from burying their loved ones ...

Today marks the day where 210,000 Irish fought in the Great War. World leaders will gather at Ypres to attend a ceremony at ...

Archaeologist Dr Marion Dowd at ATU Sligo is looking for community help in identifying the locations of children’s burial grounds across the county. The burial grounds are known by a number of ...

Fascinating Irish newsreel has been digitized by the Irish Film Institute for its Irish Independence Film Collection.

A new €2.7m burial ground has officially opened in Trim, Co Meath. Meath County Council unveiled the Loganstown Burial Ground at a ceremony on Monday. The state-of-the-art facility provides 2,400 ...

As a result, many Irish people took jobs in law enforcement. At their funerals, honoring their Irish culture with bagpipes was a given. It’s also possible that early police departments—such as ...

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