File 2 - Adoption Bills/Acts

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UGA P143/1/3/3/2

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Adoption Bills/Acts

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  • 1967-1976

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423pp

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Folder labelled "Acts": material related to and including Adoption Bills for Ireland, and Northern Ireland, and amendments including copy of Adoption Bill 1971 (proof); 4 copies of Adoption Bill, 1974, as introduced; copy of Adoption Bill, 1974, as amended in Committee; copy of Adoption Bill, 1976 as initiated; Minister's Speech [Minister for Justice, Mr Cooney?], at Second Stage of Adoption Bill, 1974, in Seanad Éireann (SÉ) [upper house of Irish parliament, Senate]; parliamentary debates, SÉ, official report, 09/07/1974 which includes "Adoption Bill, 1974: Second Stage (resumed)", in which Mary Robinson (MR) refers to case histories shared with her by Children First, (see P143/1/3/4/1); research material including typed memorandum by UK Ministry of Home Affairs for the guidance of registered adoption services in relation to Adoption of Children Act (N.I.) [Northern Ireland], 1950, photocopies of Adoption Act (Northern Ireland), 1967 and 1969, Draft Practice Memorandum Section 3 Adoption Act, 1974, report "Adoption in Ireland", by Vivienne Darling, Social Studies Department, Trinity College Dublin (MR referenced this in SÉ), 1974 and report from Irish Adoption Workers conference, Limerick, "Aspects Of Adoption - Some Basic Principals", Limerick Conference 1974; handwritten notes; questions to Senator MR in relation to Adoption Bill, n.d.; carbon copy of letter sent to Owen Mulholland, solicitor, thanking him for allowing MR look at his file on adoption and submissions from representatives of adoption societies, in a briefing ahead of considering the Government's Bill in SÉ, 16/07/1974; typed summary of speech by Fr O'Mahoney at Cork Speakers Club, October 197[?], on subject "Some aspects of adoption" at which MR and Sr Paul (St Annes Adoption Society) also attended; typed notes on comparative legalisation on adoption in Northern Ireland, n.d. [197?]; text of two lectures "The Status of Children under the adoption Acts 1952-1964" and "recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Divorce Decrees", Senator MR, Reid Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law, Trinity College Dublin, delivered at seminar in Waterford, of The Society of Young solicitors, 4/11/1972; lecture "A New Children act", Rev James Good, Director, UCC, Education Centre, Limerick, 03/05/1972; address of Minister for Justice, Mr Patrick Cooney, TD [Teachta Dála, member of Dáil Éireann, lower house of Irish parliament] and the Irish Adoption Workers' conference, Limerick, 25/04/1974 which was quoted by MR in SÉ.

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      07/10/2024
      05/11/2024

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