Protestant churches face a day of reckoning with North’s inquiry into mother and baby homes
The majority of those held in homes across the North came from a Protestant background, and their babies were adopted by Protestant families
Mother and baby homes
Stories about Ireland's mother and baby homes
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Kathleen Lynn Hospital, Dolores O’Riordan Park and Catherine Corless Place: Readers on how we should honour Irish women
We asked Irish Times readers if there were any streets, buildings, places or structures in Ireland that they thought should be named, or renamed, after women
Where is our hot moral indignation when it comes to the fathers of the babies found at Tuam?
Small Things Like These misses an essential truth about Catholic Ireland
Finding family through DNA tests: ‘It was lovely to know everything. It wasn’t always a pretty story, but at least I knew’
Three women explain how simple tests revealed secrets about their families’ pasts and changed their lives
‘This is the opportunity for people to tell their story in full’: People held in institutions in Northern Ireland urged to come forward
An independent panel is seeking testimony from anyone who spent time in mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses, along with those who worked, volunteered in, or lived nearby
Call for former Bessborough mother and baby home site to be converted into memorial garden
Campaigners urge Cork City Council to purchase land after apartment development plans near site of burial ground are rejected
Cross-Border co-operation to ensure mother and baby home records in North can be found
Issue featured during meeting of North South Ministerial Council in Dublin, the second in less than four months
School abuse commission has power to compel answers from religious orders. It should use it
It is time the State got to grips with the redress issue where religious congregations are concerned
Stolen review: Powerful and unflinching documentary on the mother and baby homes
Television: Documentary chronicles the evil of the homes while respecting the victims by letting eyewitnesses speak for themselves
Deadline missed for mother-and-baby redress deal with church orders
Negotiator Sheila Nunan ‘will continue her work to its conclusion’, Department of Equality says
Hundreds of mother and baby home survivors receive first redress payments
Landmark scheme was finally opened in March after delays and criticism
Former mother and baby home resident alleges she was given wrong child at birth
Expected bill for outstanding legal claims against the State has surpassed €5 billion for the first time
Remains of almost 2,000 people from mother and baby homes used at Queen’s University Belfast
Stormont committee told it is not known what happened to vast majority of remains and body parts after use in research and teaching
Failure to prevent destruction of records is a further insult to those whose identities were stolen
To treat these records with such contempt is to repeat the contempt shown by Church and State to thousands of women and children
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace review – powerful investigation of personal pain behind mother and baby homes
Television: Dubliner Martina Evenden discovers unknown cousin while cousin finds instant extended family
Stream-of-consciousness writing: ‘an act of trust’
Some writers seek to delve into the inner workings of their characters’ hearts and minds using this unbridled technique. We talk to four
Patricia Carey: ‘I’ve had good experiences of being adopted, but that does not mean that adoption is not difficult’
The newly appointed special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse brings an unshowy sense of determination to her mission
Good timing pays off again for Cecelia Ahern
Paul McGinley pitches up in Ballsbridge; BBC Northern Ireland journalists get good gigs; Sharon Horgan enjoys literary success; and Fianna Fail decides to run new and not so new names
Joe Duffy’s snap judgment on Simon Harris’s Stardust apology somehow captures the wider mood
Radio review: the Liveline host’s snap judgment on Simon Harris’s State apology somehow captures the wider mood
The Irish Times view on the Stardust apology: a belated acknowledgment of State wrongdoing
Addressing the families in the Visitors’ Gallery, the Taoiseach apologised for the successive rebuffs and humiliations visited on them
Mother-and-baby-home investigation to include DNA profiling using genetic material from maternal line
Use of next-generation sequencing technology for examining mitochondrial DNA material will represent a new departure for State laboratory
Mother and baby home redress: Taoiseach defends compensation scheme against sharp criticism
Independent TD Catherine Connolly says compensation based on business and cost and ‘absolutely nothing to do with justice or what is right’
I want to give the 796 children buried at Tuam their dignity and, if we can, an identity
I have taken what I learned in Lebanon and the Caucasus to Tuam; there are many similarities with the post-conflict missing-persons work
Compensation scheme for medical trial victims at mother and baby homes to open, but GSK won’t contribute
Pharma giant GSK, whose predecessor companies profited from the trials, has so far resisted calls to contribute
‘The grown-ups kept Mary a secret from the rest of us. How did they live with that?’
Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills: Secret pregnancies and missing women are part of the family story of a great many people
The Last Nuns in Ireland: ‘Where were the men, the parents? We were scapegoated for what was going wrong in society’
TV review: Dearbhail McDonald suggests it is time to stop seeing nuns – and, by implication, ourselves and our history – in black and white
Mother and baby home redress scheme: The effort to get church bodies to contribute
To date only one of seven Catholic orders involved in negotiations – the Bon Secours sisters – has stated publicly that it will contribute to the redress scheme for survivors
Coalition to examine church assets in bid to break impasse over mother and baby homes redress
Minister has sought financial contributions from seven Catholic bodies that ran homes or were linked to them
Government redress scheme for mother and baby home survivors to open early next year
Roderic O’Gorman tells Dáil negotiations on financial contributions from religious bodies which ran institutions ‘ongoing’ and ‘confidential’
Stolen: ‘Ireland loved locking people up,’ says one contributor to this film about institutional barbarism
Film review: The emotional centre of the film remains with the survivors of mother and baby homes
The Celestial Realm by Molly Hennigan: A brave new voice in Irish literature
Hennigan calls for public recognition – a reckoning – of the horrors enacted within psychiatric institutions
‘Very likely’ many of the 796 babies’ remains at Tuam grave will never be identified
Daniel Mac Sweeney, leading the exhumation, says process will operate at ‘limits of forensic science’
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