Suffer the Little Children
The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools
Up until the late sixties in Ireland, thousands of young children were sent to what were called industrial schools, financed by the Department of Education, and operated by various religious orders of the Catholic Church. Popular belief held that these schools were orphanages or detention centers, when in reality most of the children ended up at the schools because their parents were too poor to care for them. Mary Raftery's award-winning three-part TV series on the industrial schools, States of Fear, shocked Ireland when broadcast on RTE, prompting an unprecedented response in Ireland. Hundreds of people phoned RTE, spoke on radio stations a…
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Weitere Autoren: O'Sullivan, Eoin
- ISBN: 978-1-84840-397-0
- EAN: 9781848403970
- Produktnummer: 20313062
- Verlag: New Island Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'301 KB
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