between the rock and the cold, cold sea

...interview the surviving nuns and inmates of the Tuam "Mother and Baby Home," and let's have the truth of where the dead children are buried - and why they were denied the dignity of proper remembrance.

Catherine Corless uncovered the fact that 796 children died over a period of 30 years while their care was the responsibility of the Tuam "Mother and Baby Home" run by the Bons Secours order of nursing nuns. There are no burial records for any of these children, nor did Corless find any indication that they'd been interred in local cemeteries.

That their bodies were interred in a septic tank is speculation.

This takes nothing away from the horror of the mortality statistics and the picture they paint of the neglect and indeed the evil committed by the Catholic Church while it masqueraded in the guise of moral righteousness. The Tuam "Mother and Baby Home" is only one of dozens, if not hundreds, that operated in Ireland during the 20th century. Corless' research is a drop in the bucket.

An immense bucket, filled the the bodies of the dead.

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Further reading:

Tuam: What Lies Beneath
No country for young women: honour crimes and infanticide in Ireland
Midwife's memoir reveals the horror of Mother and Baby Home in Bessborough, Cork
Amnesty International calls for urgent investigation

ETA: Many of these links via @nwbrux