“My father’s brother was in that with the old IRA. They were waked at the barracks in Tuam and towards dawn the following morning colleagues of the dead policemen burned the town hall as well as houses and businesses. The previous day, at Gallagh near the town, two RIC officers were killed in an IRA ambush. ”Ĭorless traces her interest in history to the burning of Tuam on July 21st, 1920. “It’s obnoxious anyway and there’s no other way. “It said in the 2019 interim report the burials were illegal,” she said. The local historian says she hopes this final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, which comes years after her own tireless research began, will insist on that. Catherine Corless, whose revelations about the deaths and burials of hundreds of children on the former mother and baby home site in Tuam, Co Galway, led to establishment of the commission, hopes that it will recommend their re-interment.
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