For six decades this 81-year-old Irish woman kept desperately looking for her birth mother and was finally united with her three weeks ago. Thanks to DNA testing, she’s “not an orphan anymore.”
Eileen Macken started searching for her biological mother when she was 19. She grew up at the Kirwan House orphanage on North Circular Road in Dublin and had lost hope of ever finding her mother. She thought was likely dead.
A genealogist who heard her on the radio broadcast then came forward with assistance and worked along with her for a year in her genetic search.
“I can’t believe it, and when I got the word that she was alive, all I want to do is to meet her,” Macken told Joe Duffy on RTÉ Radio 1 this week, according to the Irish Post.
“Unfortunately, she lives across the water but two of my cousins have decided to help me... they know that all I want is to see her.
“I don’t want to upset anybody, I won’t give any names or anything,” Macken said.
Since then, the daughter and mother have shared a phone call, but they had difficulty listening to each other on the line. Macken, however, has seen an old photograph of her mother, taken many years ago.
