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Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools
Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan
Suffer the Little Children - The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools makes horrifying reading. It is an account of the systematic abuse of underprivileged children incarcerated in Ireland’s industrial school system from the foundation of the State to the mid-1970s.
The book is an outgrowth of the hugely controversial and influential TV documentary series States of Fear made in 1999, which, through the personal testimonies of the survivors of the Industrial School System, built up a totally convincing picture of an institutional childcare system perversely devoted to the incarceration and abuse of children, under the guidance of a Government which did not seem to be aware of, or conveniently failed to recognize, what was going on. States of Fear provided the conclusive evidence in the debate surrounding the abuse of children in institutional care in Ireland, which had opened with Louis Lentin’s documentary Dear Daughter.
www.amazon.com/Suffer-Little-Children-Irelands-Industrial/dp/0826413374
Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan
Suffer the Little Children - The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools makes horrifying reading. It is an account of the systematic abuse of underprivileged children incarcerated in Ireland’s industrial school system from the foundation of the State to the mid-1970s.
The book is an outgrowth of the hugely controversial and influential TV documentary series States of Fear made in 1999, which, through the personal testimonies of the survivors of the Industrial School System, built up a totally convincing picture of an institutional childcare system perversely devoted to the incarceration and abuse of children, under the guidance of a Government which did not seem to be aware of, or conveniently failed to recognize, what was going on. States of Fear provided the conclusive evidence in the debate surrounding the abuse of children in institutional care in Ireland, which had opened with Louis Lentin’s documentary Dear Daughter.
www.amazon.com/Suffer-Little-Children-Irelands-Industrial/dp/0826413374