Irish Examiner view: Redress options for illegal adoptions diminish as time goes on

For the majority of this relatively young Republic’s history coming to terms with our past usually meant rejecting if not abhorring all things British. 

That process was embraced with fervor and went to extraordinary degrees to establish a cultural identity inventing, where necessary, idioms intended as evidence of Gaelic purity. Formal Irish dancing was one of the art forms created as much to differentiate as to inspire.