Children of the Poor Clares: The Collusion Between Church and State That Betrayed Thousands of Children in Ireland’S Industrial Schools

Children of the Poor Clares: The Collusion Between Church and State That Betrayed Thousands of Children in Ireland’S Industrial Schools
ISBN-10
146690903X
ISBN-13
9781466909038
Category
History
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2012-01-24
Publisher
Trafford Publishing
Authors
Mavis Arnold, Heather Laskey

Description

The original 1985 edition of Children of the Poor Clares was the first book to expose the reality of the treatment of children placed in church care in Irelands post-independence horrendous industrial school system. Giving an intimate picture, covering over four decades, of life in one of these institutions, it documented the gross physical and emotional abuse, neglect, malnourishment, exploitation, lack of proper education, deprivation, and humiliation that scarred the children for life. It further identified the collusion of the state and its own lawbreaking that enabled the abuse in its vast apparatus of incarceration of impoverished children. This revised updated edition gives chilling details of revelations that have since become public and of the states ultimate responsibility for what took place.

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