Resources
Testimony (2025)
TESTIMONY is a profoundly moving documentary that chronicles the fight for justice by survivors of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. It captures the determination of these women, supported by the advocacy group Justice for Magdalenes (JFM), to hold the Irish government accountable for decades of institutional abuse.
The Lost Children of Marianvale (2018)
File on 4 asks whether enough is being done to provide answers for some women who went into Northern Ireland's mother and baby homes and for the babies they never saw again.
The Woman in the Wall (2023)
Up Close - An Island's Shame (2024)
Stolen (2023)
Paul Sunderland Talks to Adoptees About Healing From Relinquishment Trauma and Complex PTSD (2024)
Birangona: Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence during Conflict - Mookherjee, Nayanika and Najmunnahar Keya. (2019)
ROI Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions
NI inquiry documents (2025)
Why Won't My Birthmother Mother Meet Me?
The Darkness: Adoptees and Disenfranchised Grief
'We were a shameful dirty secret' David LLoyd, Good House Keeping (2025)
Statement from Diocese of Down and Connor on Nazareth House and Lodge (2017)
Unmarried Irish mothers in UK 'relieved baby was getting a good home' — adoption report (2024)
The Real Neuroscience of Creativity - Scientific American Blog Network (2022)
'At Mother & Baby Home I was abused and treated like a servant' Belfast Telegraph (2024)
Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (2014)
Understanding Analogies and Thinking Processes
CoramBAAF - Tracing Birth Relatives - for Adopted People (2019)
PRONI - conflict related court records
Adoption care websites
Malone Trauma Network
Disenfranchised Grief
Some Points to Consider
Totally Invisible Report December 2025 CVOCNI and QUB (2025)
Reflections on the Irish Domestic Adoption Process (1952-2022)
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
BRIEFING
MAGDALENE LAUNDRY-TYPE INSTITUTIONS IN
NORTHERN IRELAND
Trauma Informed Oregon - Trauma‐Informed Care Implementation Assessment Instrument
Trauma Informed Oregon - Trauma Informed Care Logic Model
Trauma Informed Oregon Original-Roadmap-to-Trauma-Informed-Care-with-Considerations
Adoption Barometer
Protecting and Providing Archives for All
The Social Psychology of Trauma
Genetic Stigma
in Law and Literature
Orphanhood, Adoption,
and the Right to Reunion
Ethical Issues Concerning Representation of Narratives of Sexual Violence. Women and War: Drishtipat
History and the Birangona History and the birangona (himalmag.com)
Birangona: Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence During Conflict in Terry Redding and Charlie Cheney eds Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook. Berghan. (A collection of essays of all Praxis award winners for the last 30 years)
The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971.’
Attachment state of mind and
trauma in mother and baby
home adoptees
‘Bound’ by grief post-adoption: can the artist’s book
assist mothers to tell their stories?
Diversity, Ambiguity and Fragility: The Experiences of Post-Adoption Sibling Relationships
Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes
Reimagining adoption in Ireland: a viable option for children in
care?
‘My scar is called adoption’:
The lived experiences of Irish
mothers who have lost a child
through closed adoption
Exploring attachment state of mind, trauma, reflective functioning, and the lived
experience of mid-life adoptees
Adoption and social identity loss: Insights from adults adopted through Ireland's mother and baby homes
Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland, 1922-1990
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ADOPTION FROM CARE - International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention
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A study of intercountry adoption outcomes in Ireland main and summary report
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An Analysis of Reunifications Between Adopted Adults and Their Birth Relatives
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