Stolen babies... 2,200 Irish infants were adopted by American families between late 1940s and early 1970s... Ann
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Earlier this year, I wrote for The Irish Times about the passing of a Magdalene survivor who lived here in the United States.
She suffered ill health in her final years. Friends had lobbied on her
behalf for health care entitlements offered through the State’s
Magdalene restorative justice scheme. Unfortunately, those benefits
never materialised.
But, in her last months she appreciated the help
received from a social worker affiliated with an Irish immigration
centre in the mid-west. I had reached out to Boston’s Consul General,
who in turn contacted her colleague in Chicago, who in turn reached out
to that city’s Irish Immigrant Support group, who made the social worker
available, despite the fact that the she lived out of state.