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Stolen Irish skulls snatched from graveyard finally returned to Inishbofin island
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as posted by the channelThirteen human skulls stolen from an Irish island more than 130 years ago have been returned and reinterred at the site from which they were taken.
The 400-year-old skulls were taken on this day in 1890 from the Co Galway island of Inishbofin, off Ireland's west coast, by two academics and kept at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) for more than a century.
After a campaign by islanders, TCD earlier this year apologised for the theft and agreed to return the remains.
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