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Adoption
Rights Alliance
Address:
The Mill House, Millview Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin Information:
Adoption Rights Alliance is a group of people affected by
adoption who have come together to ensure that the Irish government
enshrines the rights of the adopted child and Ireland's 50,000 adult
adopted people in the proposed 2009 Adoption Bill. The
Adoption Support Network of Ireland Address:
39 Bourne View, Ashbourne, Co. Meath. Web: www.adoption.ie
Email:
info@adoption.ie Information:
Peer support and advocacy organisation made up of a network of
local groups, providing advice and support to those affected by the
Irish adoption system and campaigning for an end to the closed secret
adoption system in Ireland. Know
My Own E-mail: knowmyown@gmail.com
Helpline: 087
2584822 (Open 7-9 pm on Tuesdays & Thursdays and 5-7 pm on Sundays)
Information:
Cork-based support group with monthly meetings held in the
Ardmanning Inn, Togher. For further details email the above
address. ACE
(Adopted Citizens of Éire)
Address:
P.O. Box 628 Islip, N.Y. 11751-0628
Information:
Northeast US-based group promoting awareness of Irish adoption to the
US. AFPAI
(Adopted and Fostered Person’s Association of Ireland) Address:
Bernadette Joyce, 23 Portmarnock Crescent, Portmarnock, Co.
Dublin.
Information:
Tracing advice and information for people who were in long-term
foster care and/or raised in institutions. Adoption Loss: The Natural Parents Network of Ireland Address:
PO Box 6714, Dublin 4 Helpline:
1890-200046 (Sundays 2pm-4pm only) Information:
Voluntary self-help organisation formed in 1996 by a group of
women who had been parted from their children by adoption in the past.
They provide help to natural families separated by adoption. Mathair
Áil Helpline:
087-6451494 (Sundays 2pm-4pm &Thursdays 7pm-9pm) Information:
Mathair Áil is a group of Irish mothers who lost one or more
children to adoption. They run monthly support meetings have an Internet
based support group and a helpline. Birth
Parents of Adopted Children (Cork) Email:
bpacsg@eircom.net
Information:
Support
group based in Cork for natural parents of adopted children. They run
quarterly support meetings and provide a telephone support service. Justice
for Magdalenes Address:
Claire McGettrick, Justice for Magdalenes, Crocknahattina,
Bailieborough, Co. Cavan. Tel:
In Ireland: (353) 86 4059491 Information:
Group formed to campaign for justice for women who were
incarcerated in Magdalene Laundries. Adoptive
Parents Association of Ireland (APAI) Roundwood Tel: 0404 45184
Fax: 0404 45700 e-mail apai@eircom.net & helengilmartin@eircom.net Information:
Representative association for adoptive parents. Other
Useful Contact Details Transparency International Useful organisation that monitors corruption worldwide. Barnardos
Adoption
Advice Service Christchurch
Square, Dublin 8. Births,
Marriages and Deaths, (General Registrar's Office) Dublin
Office (Research Room) 3rd
Floor, Block 7, Irish Life Centre, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1. Roscommon
Office Government
Offices, Convent Road, Roscommon. Tel:
090 6632900 LoCall: 1890 252076 The
National Archives Bishop
Street, Dublin 2. Treoir Information
Centre, 36 Upper Rathmines Road, Dublin 6. Adoption
Board Address:
Shelbourne
House, Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. The
Adoption Board has details on all legal adoptions since 1953. Also
has the records for St. Therese's Adoption Society, Whitefriar St.,
Dublin 8, & Catholic Women's Aid, Cork.
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