I read the news today,oh boy
Eight hundred babies dead in Galway.
And though the locals knew too well,
No one thought to tell
"They were bound for hell"
They hid their corpses in the ****
And said their prayers and shut
Their eyes and mouths and sit
Around now and shake their heads
And plead innocence of everything
But I see no innocence.
Only tiny crumbled bones from unmarried mother's homes
The last unloved remains of true innocents.
There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840’s workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turned it into a Mother and Baby home for “fallen women.”
The long abandoned site made headlines around the world this week when it was revealed that a nearby septic tank contained the bodies of up to eight hundred infants and children, secretly buried without coffins or headstones on unconsecrated ground between 1925 and 1961.