In the Tuam Children’s Home, run by the Sisters of Bon Secours (Good Help), around 800 children were buried in a structure ‘built within the decommissioned large sewage tank’. Between January 1920 and October 1977, the bodies of more than 950 children, almost all of them ‘illegitimate’, were sent to the medical schools at University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland for the purpose of anatomical studies. Church-run institutions were among the main suppliers. Some of these babies were never buried. The commission noted tersely that ‘It may be
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