“Culturally in this country there’s a short time between the death and the cremation or burial,” and there is a particular ...

Natural burial services are family directed, so the most important artists in a ceremony are the friends and family members of the deceased. They often bring to the service their own letters, poems, ...

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 ...

ODAIT began excavating the site of the former St Mary's mother-and-baby institution in July. In its first update, published around a month ago, ODAIT said it had found shoes, spectacles and baby glass ...

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

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.