Tuam Spirit Babies project seeks local opinion on fallout

TUAM people are being asked to speak from the heart by contributing to an art project based on the town’s mother and baby home.
Sadie Cramer, an artist living near Corrandulla, will be in the town on Saturday seeking the opinion of the local community as to how the revelations that up to 800 babies may be buried at the site, affected them.
The home is one of 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes throughout the country being examined by a government-appointed Commission of Investigation.
Some survivors and relatives of those who died at the Tuam home have called for the site to be exhumed to determine the extent of the scandal, which was revealed by Cortoon woman Catherine Corless during her research on the home three years ago.
However, residents living near the site on the Athenry Road, which has been tended to as a memorial garden by the local community for over 40 years, are resisting such calls. They believe the majority of people associated with the home do not support excavations at the site.