Brenda is among those to tell her story in RTÉ Investigates: Ireland's Illegal AdoptionsA son of former President and Taoiseach Éamon de Valera facilitated illegal adoptions in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a new documentary. Professor Éamon de Valera Jr is said to have helped arrange for four children to be illegally adopted into the same house. Among documents obtained by one woman who was illegally adopted, Dubliner Susan Kiernan, was a demand by for £85 from her birth mother. When her birth mother could not afford to pay, the nuns pursued her. Mary Flanagan, another woman whose illegal adoption was said to have been facilitated by Prof de Valera, was born in March 1961.

Source: Irish Independent March 03, 2021 02:33 UTC