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Fear of the Collar: My Terrifying Chidhood in Artane
Patrick Touher
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Paperback. Fine copy with light shelf wear
Life in Artane Industrial School was an education in cruelty and fear. Run by the Christian Brothers, the school has become synonymous with the widespread abuse of children in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s and is currently under police investigation.
Patrick Touher's story bears testament to the courage and determination of the children who were forgotten by society. Sent there at age eight, Patrick Touher spent eight long years in Artane Industrial School under the oppressive rule of the Christian Bothers.
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The story which couldn't be told - until now.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
O'Brien Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780862787271
SKU
KCW0014056
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Ref
99-2
About Patrick Touher
Patrick Touher trained as a Baker Confectioner whilst in Artane Industrial School and worked as such upon leaving the school at age sixteen. Patrick travelled extensively from the sixties through to the early seventies. In 1972 he married his wife Pauline and they had three children together.
Reviews for Fear of the Collar: My Terrifying Chidhood in Artane
'Gripping in its honest and no-holds-barred account of one boy's sometimes tortuous trek through the grey underworld of Dublin's industrial school life during the 1950s ... Disturbingly, the grainy photographs are reminiscent of Russia at the turn of the century rather than an Ireland of only half a century ago.'
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