Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA), Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and global law firm, Hogan Lovells, published the Clann Project’s final Report which draws on 77 witness statements, extracted from conversations with 164 people separated from their family members through Ireland’s forced, secret adoption system and related historical abuses.

Please cite the Clann Report as follows:

Maeve O’Rourke, Claire McGettrick, Rod Baker, Raymond Hill et al., CLANN: Ireland’s Unmarried Mothers and their Children: Gathering the Data: Principal Submission to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. Dublin: Justice For Magdalenes Research, Adoption Rights Alliance, Hogan Lovells, 15 October 2018.

The report can be downloaded here.