Identity crisis: Ireland’s adoptees and the wait to receive their origin stories
New legislation finally giving adoptees access to their birth information has been delayed but Breaking the Silence, a creative response to Ireland’s mother-and-baby home legacy, aims to inspire immediate action
“We, collectively in this House, will be judged by our actions. Actions always speak louder than words.” In January, the Taoiseach delivered a landmark apology to survivors of mother and baby institutions, acknowledging the terrible harms visited upon the tens of thousands of vulnerable women and their children separated by the system.
“The shame was not theirs – it was ours,” he said, pledging to introduce information-and-tracing legislation as “a priority”, adding, “Access to one’s ...
