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'Lives could be saved': Woman with MS says adopted people should have access to medical history
'The brother whipped him until his back was bleeding, then gave him an orange to keep quiet'
'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted'
'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30'
'I apologise for the profound generational wrong': Taoiseach gives landmark apology to survivors of mother and baby homes
How a God-fearing Ireland shamed, abandoned and punished its 'fallen' women and girls
5-year investigation finds at least 9,000 children died in Ireland's mother and baby homes
'Accept responsibility and we might accept your apology': Survivors brace themselves for mother and baby home report
How a 'surprising' lack of burial records impacted the work of the mother and baby home commission