The Mick Clifford Podcast: Paul Cullen’s powerful search for family and truth

Author Paul Cullen reflects on adoption, stigma and identity in mid-20th century Ireland

Paul Cullen on adoption, identity and belonging in mid-century Ireland

Adoption was big business in Ireland in the middle decades of the last century, in a country where birth outside marriage was considered a stain.

That was the country into which Paul Cullen was born and later adopted.

He has written a page-turning account of his life as an adoptee, Outsider – Survival, Family Secrets and the Search To Belong.

Paul is the guest on this week’s Mick Clifford Podcast.