Catherine Corless, Irish historian: I’m going to be a voice for these children
I’m going to be a voice for these children
Chris Page, the BBC’s Ireland correspondent speaks to the Irish historian Catherine Corless, who has changed history in her own country.
When she began to research a long-closed mother and baby home near where she lived, she encountered local resistance. But her dogged investigation led to the discovery that hundreds of babies and young children were buried in mass, unmarked graves inside a disused sewage tank at the site in Tuam, Ireland.
Her work led to the discovery of the scandal of Ireland’s historical mother and baby institutions, which housed…
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