Foreign Adoption in Ireland: A Case Study of the Irish-American Adoptions, 1947–1952
The Irish-American adoptions were a revolutionary way of dealing with Ireland’s ‘problem of the illegitimate child’. Ireland had long been promoted as a Catholic, and thus, a morally pure country. Having a child out of wedlock often resulted in the mother and child being shunned by their family and...
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| Language: | English |
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SAHkartell
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in Arts and Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://sahjournal.com/index.php/sah/article/view/59 |