Laura Angela Collins
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Laura Angela Collins is a London-based Irish Traveller activist and author.
‘The Tinker Menace; a diary of a Irish Traveller’ author Laura Angela Collins
View of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, Galway
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
Laura Angela Collins
…grandmother's exhumation and for apologies from the Irish government and Catholic Church. Collins' mother, Mary Teresa Collins, is a survivor of the industrial school system in Ireland, and was a child resident of St Vincent's Magdalene Laundry in Cork. Collins chairs an Irish Traveller led survivor support group, she has published…
Former St Joseph's Industrial School in Letterfrack