I remember reading my documents for the first time. The tortuous twists and turns of my early life
Paul Cullen: I have always known I was adopted, but my early years – unrecorded, unremembered – were one big void
Adoption
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Will aunt’s possible ‘lost child’ have claim on her estate years after she died?
Inheritance rights are clear in adoption cases, but law on illegal adoptions does not seem to apply here
Why are the experiences of people, like me, who were resident in Temple Hill forgotten?
Residents of the old St Patrick’s Infant and Dietetic Hospital are excluded from redress schemes despite its role in adoptions
‘Where are you from?’: Adopted people face microaggressions and jokes, report finds
New study explores experiences of people who were adopted from other countries by Irish families
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick: Chilling insight into the birth of modern China
An illuminating and heartbreaking exposé of the enforcement of the one-child policy
Fraud and abuse in South Korea’s foreign-adoption programme in 1970s and 1980s highlighted
Children were falsely documented as abandoned orphans and children’s identities were switched, commission finds
Surge in applications to adoption authority for birth information and to trace relatives
Authority says it processed more than 3,500 applications for birth information last year
Patricia Carey: ‘I’ve had good experiences of being adopted, but that does not mean that adoption is not difficult’
The newly appointed special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse brings an unshowy sense of determination to her mission
Adoption body says personal information request backlog now cleared
Delay of almost year ‘unacceptable’ as Adoption Authority of Ireland says it was inundated with applications for birth certificates, birth information, early life, care and medical information
Russia forced Ireland’s hand on Magnitsky case
The joint Oireachtas committee felt the full force of international politics
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
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