Letter to the Editor: Survivors should be in control of their own records

As individual professional archivists and information professionals, we wish to add our support to the calls for the full and immediate withdrawal of the Retention of Records Bill 2019 (Abuse records Bill should be withdrawn, December 4, 2019).

Since the foundation of the State, Ireland has been working against absent records and histories owing to the destruction of records at the Public Records Office of Ireland in Dublin in 1922.