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Charitable organisations also abused their positions by initiating action resulting
in children being forcibly taken from their homes and 'put away'. There were more
than fifty industrial schools in the land, all of which had to be supplied with a ...
Charitable organisations also abused their positions by initiating action resulting
in children being forcibly taken from their homes and 'put away'. There were more
than fifty industrial schools in the land, all of which had to be supplied with a ...
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When I left school I witnessed children playing on Sandymount Strand in the
summer heatwaves, the weals exposed on their ... The story is about my life in
two industrial schools in the 1920s and 1930s, and my struggle to adjust to a new
life ...
When I left school I witnessed children playing on Sandymount Strand in the
summer heatwaves, the weals exposed on their ... The story is about my life in
two industrial schools in the 1920s and 1930s, and my struggle to adjust to a new
life ...
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Separated from his mother and sister, he grew up in industrial schools in
Kilkenny and Dublin - a fact that he kept secret from his colleagues in the Post
Office for almost fifty years. In The Stolen Child, Joe Dunne tells his story with
honesty, ...
Separated from his mother and sister, he grew up in industrial schools in
Kilkenny and Dublin - a fact that he kept secret from his colleagues in the Post
Office for almost fifty years. In The Stolen Child, Joe Dunne tells his story with
honesty, ...
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Contents
Preface | 9 |
Earliest Recollections | 15 |
St Patricks Kilkenny | 22 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The stolen child |
| Author | Joe Dunne |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Marino Books, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1860231535, 9781860231537 |
| Length | 220 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / General Family & Relationships / Adoption & Fostering Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare Social Science / Children's Studies |
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