Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Adoption"
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Legal remedies, truth recovery and illegal adoptions: The limits and transformative potential of human rights law and practice
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-06)This thesis seeks to address two related research questions. First, to consider and assess the Irish State’s approach and legal responses to historical practices of illegal adoption – how are such legal responses affected ... -
Migration and assistance: Irish unmarried mothers in Britain, 1926-1973
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-06)From 1926 to 1973, hundreds of women travelled from Ireland to Britain each year to escape the shame of unmarried motherhood in their community. As previous scholars have shown, pregnancy outside of marriage was stigmatised ...