Industrial school (Ireland)
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Industrial schools were operated in Ireland from 1868 to 1995 to care for orphans, neglected children, abandoned children, children convicted of criminal offences and children from impoverished famili
Former St Joseph's Industrial School in Letterfrack
Peter Tyrrell
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Peter Tyrrell was an Irish tailor, author and activist against child abuse. When he was eight years old, the authorities committed him and his older brothers to St Joseph's Industrial School, Letterfr
Industrial school (Ireland)
…such as Christmas, or whenever an inspector or outside people visited a school, however, the children there would temporarily receive better food. Peter Tyrrell recounted in his memoir Founded on Fear that the supper at Letterfrack "consisted of a mug of cocoa (unsweetened) and a half slices of bread and…
The only known photograph of Tyrrell
East Heath Road in 2008