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This week, an Oireachtas committee heard that many of the women who experienced Ireland’s Mother and Baby Home system first-hand have yet to come forward as survivors.
Some may not have even told their partners or loved ones about their experiences.
Others who were born in the system before being adopted — sometimes illegally and without the mother’s consent — are still struggling to find answers.
For this stirring piece, Órla Ryan spoke to two women born in two different Mother and Baby Homes before being adopted.
“Both women sought to find their birth parents, but instead discovered each other,” she writes. “The women, now aged in their 50s, found out they are half-sisters four years ago, decades after first making inquiries about their past.”
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