Work to excavate site of Tuam mother and baby home to begin in June
Almost 800 children could be buried at the site
Mother and baby homes
Stories about Ireland's mother and baby homes
When Pope Francis met abuse survivors in Ireland: ‘He drew a picture of a toilet. Anything that goes into that is caca’
Pope met eight Irish survivors of clerical abuse when he visited Ireland in August 2018
Churches should ‘do the right thing’ on mother-and-baby home redress, Norma Foley says
Government faces steep legal barriers to compelling orders to contribute to €800m redress scheme, say experts
Some religious orders’ refusal to contribute to mother and baby home redress shows ‘lack of compassion’
Some survivors want Government to seize assets of religious orders who refuse to pay
Woman sues over alleged forced adoption of her child at mother and baby home in 1980
The mother, who was unmarried when she gave birth, says she was forced to give up her baby
Church orders’ refusal to pay mother-and-baby home redress leaves Government with dilemma
Any attempt to force payment from church orders would be fraught with legal difficulty, expert says
Government must ‘flex legal muscle’ to force religious orders to contribute to redress schemes
Congregations ‘operated as criminal networks in mother and baby homes’, Social Democrats acting leader tells Dáil
Just one religious order has made ‘serious offer’ of cash redress to mother-and-baby home survivors
Government negotiator Sheila Nunan has submitted a final report with conclusions from talks with seven Catholic bodies and the Church of Ireland
Majority of Irish homeowners to see property tax increases this year
Paschal Donohoe expected to brief colleagues on proposed changes to LPT charging mechanism to limit the impact of rising property values on householders
Irish primary schoolchildren have been taught for generations that spring begins on February 1st, but is that true?
Irish primary schoolchildren have been taught for generation that spring begins on February 1st
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
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’
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