Examples Of Hollow Yearning In The Odyssey

Like Alex Haley, author of Roots, eloquently put it “[i]n all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.” For the majority, in the Republic of Ireland (‘Ireland’), that yearning can be filled, and taken for granted as it is considered their birthright to know their family’s origin, their natural mother’s name, the circumstances which led to their birth as well as their medical records. Meanwhile, for those adopted that yearning often consumes and haunts them as such a birthright is not yet recognised.
Throughout the decades, the Irish government has turned a blind eye to the rights of the adopted person (‘the adoptee’);