After a decade of research and public ridicule, historian Catherine Corless has been vindicated as excavation begins at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, where nearly 800 children's remains were buried in a mass grave.

The remains of almost 800 babies and children are believed to be buried under a former 'mother and baby home' in Tuam, with many believed to have been dumped into a sewage tank that was dubbed "the pit".

Monday marked the start of an excavation of horrific proportions in Ireland. That marked the beginning of excavation work at