Claire McGettrickClaire McGettrick is an Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin. Her research interests focus on adoption, so-called historical abuses, and related injustices in twentieth-century Ireand. Her Ph.D. research investigates the bodies of expert knowledge on adoption. She is cofounder of Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA). She jointly coordinates the multi-award-winning CLANN project with Dr Maeve O'Rourke, as well as the Magdalene Names Project (MNP), which has recorded the details of nearly1,900 women who lived and died in Ireland's Magdalen laundries. Her article, '"Illegitimate" Knowledge: Traditional Justice and Adopted People, ' appeared recently in the double special issue of Éire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2020) on Transitional Justice and institutional abuse in Ireland. Read More Read Less