Advertisements
Desmond McDaid and Adoption
Biography
McDaid was the son of a single mother in Ireland, who had to leave him in an orphanage when he was two. He stayed in Irish orphanages until he was nine, when he was shipped, without his mother's knowledge or consent, to Australia as one of the Child Migrants. He spent the rest of his childhood in institutions, often physically and emotionally abused.
He was apprenticed to a tool-maker and eventually owned his own tool-sharpening company.
With the help of the Child Migrants' Trust he was reunited with his mother in about 1992.
References
Humphreys, Margaret. Empty Cradles. New edition. (London: Corgi Books, 1995)
Categories:
- Adoption Celebrities
- Adopted Persons
- European
- Australia
- Ireland
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Business and Industry
- Engineering, Technology, Aviation, Inventions
- Self-made Men and Women
- Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed
- Multiple or Unspecified
- Pre-school Years
- Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope
- Institutional Care
- Unmarried Mother
- In Contact With Birth Family