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'); Opinion: 'She knocked on the door and the nun said her son was gone' - the story of the forgotten foster children Jamie Canavan is researching the stories of children who were forced into ‘boarding out’, a term given to fostering in the early to mid last century. By Jamie Canavan Sunday 31 Jan 2021, 8:30 AM Jan 31st 2021, 8:30 AM 28,474 Views 12 Comments Jamie Canavan ...

Susan Lohan from Malahide was just six months old when she was placed into forced adoption in Dublin in 1963. The child of an unmarried mother, like thousands of others she fell victim to a callous church and State who deemed it immoral for women to care for a child out of wedlock.

'); 'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted' Adopted people and survivors of mother and baby homes say forced adoption was widespread, regardless of what the commission says. By Órla Ryan Sunday 17 Jan 2021, 8:00 AM Jan 17th 2021, 8:00 AM 33,005 Views 0 Comments File photo Source: Shutterstock/ChameleonsEye SURVIVORS AND CAMPAIGNERS have criticised how the final repor...

'); 'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30' Susan Lohan says adopted people have for decades been fed a false narrative about their mothers in the hopes they won’t try to find them. By Órla Ryan Saturday 16 Jan 2021, 10:30 AM Jan 16th 2021, 10:30 AM 119,120 Views 0 Comments Susan Lohan Susan Lohan SUSAN LOHAN HAS been campaigning for the rights of adopted people for 2...

In 1926 Catherine, a trainee nurse in London, fell pregnant. Desperate, she sought help from the National Vigilance Association (NVA), established in 1885 “for the enforcement and improvement of public morality”. Fearful her matron would hear of her pregnancy, Catherine returned to Ireland and gave birth to a son in St Patrick’s Home, Dublin. She returned to London a few weeks later to continue her training. In a series of heartbreaking letters, Catherine and her baby’s sad story plays out. A Miss Cruice, of St Patrick’s Guild, wrote to the NVA demanding money to cover the costs of...