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Background to Irish Adoption
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Banished Babies
by Mike Millotte 

Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment
by James M. Smith  

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee (of interest to those in Sean Ross Abbey)
by Martin Sixsmith

Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland
by Frances Finnegan

Suffer the Little Children: The inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools
by Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan

The Light in the Window (of interest to those who were in Bessboro)
by June Goulding

A Woman To Blame – The Kerry Babies Case
by Nell McCafferty

The Adoption Experience
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Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child
by Nancy Verrier

Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience
by Betty Jean Lifton

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
by Betty Jean Lifton

Journey of the Adopted Self: A quest for Wholeness
by Betty Jean Lifton

The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide
by Julie Jarrell Bailey & Lynn N Giddens

The Adoption Nation:  How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America
by Adam Pertman

Blue-eyed Son: The Story of an Adoption
by Nicky Campbell

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
by Sherrie Eldridge

Birth Bond: Between Birthparents and Adoptees
by Judith Gediman & Linda Brown

Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe Versus Wade
by Ricki Solinger

Adoption Reunion, Ecstasy or Agony?
by Evelyn Robinson  

The Harry Potter Series
Though not directly related to adoption, the themes in the Harry Potter books and movies, especially in relation to Harry’s separation from his wizarding heritage, resonate closely with the feelings experienced by adopted people about their separation from their natural families.