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Inside Ireland's unmarried mothers house of horrors - by historian whose discovery shocked the world: Church-run home 'didn't value illegitimate children', fed them 'bare minimum to survive' and 'dumped bodies in sewage system'

A baby died almost every fortnight, Catherine Corless said, with a 1947 report finding that as many as a quarter of the child residents died in a single year.