Banished Babies: The Secret History of Ireland's Baby Export Business (32 page)

2.
DoEA 345/96/I/I, internal memo, 1 March 1962

3.
Gay Byrne Show,
RTÉ Radio 1, 4 March 1996

4.
Gay Byrne Show,
7 March 1996

5.
Gay Byrne Show,
4 March 1996

6.
Morning Ireland,
RTÉ Radio 1, 6 March 1996

7.
The Irish Times
, 7 March 1996

8.
The Irish Times,
6 March 1996

9.
Dáil Debates, 5 March 1996, Shatter’s speech is at Col 1458-59

10.
Currie’s speech is at
ibid.
Col 1459-62

11.
Caitriona Crowe told how she located the files to
The Irish Times
, 9 March 1996

12.
Quotations are from Spring’s prepared script, dated 7 March 1996

13.
Sunday Tribune,
10 March 1996

14.
Sunday Independent,
10 March 1996

15.
The Irish Times,
9 March 1996

16.
Irish Independent,
8 March 1996

17.
D
á
il Debates,
14 March 1996, Cols 432-34

18.
Barrett,
Adoption,
pp 28-30

19.
Dáil Debates, 4 March 1998, Cols 440-41

20.
Supreme Court judgment in the case of
I.O’T. and M.H. v Rotunda Girls Adoption Society
(1998)

21.
The Adoption Rights Alliance, who suggested the 300,000 figure, say it is a conservative estimate.

22.
Eileen Farrelly Conway,
Search and Reunion in the Adoption Triangle
, Trinity College, Dublin, 1994, p. 11

23.
Irish Examiner,
23 April 2010

24.
Quoted in
Irish Examiner,
20 July 2011

25.
Ibid

26.
Irish Examiner,
9 June 2011

27.
D
á
il Debates,
9 April 1997

28.
Conway,
op. cit.,
p. 31