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An Analysis of Reunifications Between Adopted Adults and Their Birth Relatives

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A study of intercountry adoption outcomes in Ireland main and summary report

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ADOPTION FROM CARE - International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention

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Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland, 1922-1990

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Adoption and social identity loss: Insights from adults adopted through Ireland's mother and baby homes

Exploring attachment state of mind, trauma, reflective functioning, and the lived
experience of mid-life adoptees

‘My scar is called adoption’:
The lived experiences of Irish
mothers who have lost a child
through closed adoption

Reimagining adoption in Ireland: a viable option for children in
care?

Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes

Diversity, Ambiguity and Fragility: The Experiences of Post-Adoption Sibling Relationships

‘Bound’ by grief post-adoption: can the artist’s book
assist mothers to tell their stories?

Attachment state of mind and
trauma in mother and baby
home adoptees

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)

History and the Birangona History and the birangona (himalmag.com)

Genetic Stigma
in Law and Literature
Orphanhood, Adoption,
and the Right to Reunion

The Social Psychology of Trauma

Protecting and Providing Archives for All

Adoption Barometer

Trauma Informed Oregon Original-Roadmap-to-Trauma-Informed-Care-with-Considerations

Trauma Informed Oregon - Trauma Informed Care Logic Model

Trauma Informed Oregon - Trauma‐Informed Care Implementation Assessment Instrument

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
BRIEFING
MAGDALENE LAUNDRY-TYPE INSTITUTIONS IN
NORTHERN IRELAND

Reflections on the Irish Domestic Adoption Process (1952-2022)

Totally Invisible Report December 2025 CVOCNI and QUB (2025)

Disenfranchised Grief
Some Points to Consider

CoramBAAF - Tracing Birth Relatives - for Adopted People (2019)

Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (2014)

'At Mother & Baby Home I was abused and treated like a servant' Belfast Telegraph (2024)

The Real Neuroscience of Creativity - Scientific American Blog Network (2022)

Unmarried Irish mothers in UK 'relieved baby was getting a good home' —  adoption report (2024)

Statement from Diocese of Down and Connor on Nazareth House and Lodge (2017)

'We were a shameful dirty secret' David LLoyd, Good House Keeping (2025)

The Darkness: Adoptees and Disenfranchised Grief

Why Won't My Birthmother Mother Meet Me?

NI inquiry documents (2025)

ROI Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions

Birangona: Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence during Conflict - Mookherjee, Nayanika and Najmunnahar Keya. (2019)

Paul Sunderland Talks to Adoptees About Healing From Relinquishment Trauma and Complex PTSD (2024)

Stolen (2023)

Up Close - An Island's Shame (2024)

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.

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.

Reimagining adoption in Ireland: a viable option for children in
care?

Like dodging bullets in the dark: the genetic risks kept hidden by adoption rules

Absent the wrong (2022)

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