# adoption stories

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'Imagine someone clicked their fingers and you had no family or history, that's the reality for thousands of us'

Adopted people have called for long-awaited tracing and information legislation to be published as a matter of urgency.

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Apr 6th 2021, 4:46 PM

'My mother gave birth to three children in three mother and baby homes in three years'

Beth Wallace wants to commemorate her brother who died, aged five weeks, 49 years ago today.

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Feb 19th 2021, 6:04 PM

Aged 61, actor discovers he was adopted: 'I went from being an only child to the eldest of seven'

Alan Stanford says, ‘Knowing you haven’t been forgotten is so important’

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Jan 26th 2016, 6:10 AM

"Meeting my birth father for the first time was really a unique experience."

TV3′s Adoption Stories has followed up on Dan, adopted from Romania when he was three.

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Jan 19th 2016, 10:36 AM

'If I was a scientist I'd invent a time machine, and go visit my birth mother'

Nine years after being adopted by Irish parents, Liwen has settled in well.

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Jan 5th 2016, 6:00 AM

'It's like looking at myself in drag' - adopted brother and sister reunited after 40 years

Paul recognised Maggie immediately when he met her for the first time.

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Jul 9th 2015, 7:00 PM

This woman thought she had found her birth mother's family, but it wasn't what it seemed

“I was so happy those days, I was thinking ‘This is definitely right, this is my family’.”

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Jun 25th 2015, 6:00 AM