Adoption files - The right to our identity

Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning . . . and the most disquieting loneliness.” The words of Alex Haley, author of Roots, which helped inspire the work of the Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA).
If the civility of a nation is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable, then we in Ireland are still found wanting when it comes to how we deal with the rights of thousands of adopted people.