# forced adoption

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Holly Cairns: Calculating redress based on length of time in an institution is just wrong

Holly Cairns

19 Oct 2022

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forced adoption

Woman's signature forged on letter saying nuns from Mother and Baby Home 'deserve a medal'

31 Jul 2021

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Commission

'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted'

17 Jan 2021

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Adoption

'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30'

16 Jan 2021

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forced adoption

Philomena Lee says Ireland must ensure mother and baby home 'atrocities' never happen again

11 Jan 2021

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mother-and-baby homes

'My mother was tied to the bed and when she couldn't push, one of the nuns sat on her chest'

15 Oct 2018

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