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Irish Gulag Paperback – 1 May 2009

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`...the most important book to be published in Ireland in the past 10 years.’ Irish Independent

The State’s industrial schools were a `Gulag’ or prison system for children. The regimes were universally harsh. Punishment was cruel and excessive. The children were deprived of proper food, medical, and psychological care. They 'lost' their education, working much of their time instead as slave labour. They were abused physically, mentally and sexually.

In 1999, Bertie Ahern apologised on behalf of the State and set in place a reconciliation procedure, its methods secretive and flawed. It did not reconcile. This was the final betrayal of thousands of former inmates whose lives had been deeply affected, and in many cases ruined, by what had happened.

This is the story of how `The Irish Gulag’ came into existence, how it was exposed, how those who had suffered were paid off, in secret, and were yet denied proper public reconciliation. In a series of moves charted in this book, the State’s main purpose is shown as self-protection, not recompense. Carried out in collaboration with the Church, this was at the heart of the betrayal of innocent children.

`...the most complete explanation of the system that has shamed us before the world and the society that allowed it all to happen. It should be required reading for all citizens.’ Irish Independent

`...a hideous public history written so honestly and courageously by one of Ireland’s finest journalists. ...brings us forward to a truth that will set us free ...the truth of Arnold’s work will send you into shock and anger...’ Mannix Flynn, The Irish Times

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365 pages
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English
Publisher

Gill Books
Publication date

1 May 2009
Dimensions

15.6 x 3 x 23 cm
ISBN-10

0717146146
ISBN-13

978-0717146147
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Publisher : Gill Books (1 May 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 365 pages
ISBN-10 : 0717146146
ISBN-13 : 978-0717146147
Dimensions : 15.6 x 3 x 23 cm

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BRUCE ARNOLD is a distinguished political correspondent. His previous publications include Concise History of Irish Art and works on Jack Yeats and Sir William Orpen and biographical studies of Charles Haughey and Jack Lynch

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wilson john haire

Children treated badly in a now forgotten Ireland

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2013

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Love is maybe not the word when detailing the frightful punishments meted out to Ireland's children who were mostly only doing what children do. Much like the suffering of the children of the poor in Victorian England.

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Jimmy H

Prisons for Children

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2010

My Wife was raised in an Industrial School in the Irish Republic and was put there (illegally), by the State, at the age of eighteen months (she was illegitimate) and kept there until age 16.
I always knew she had a 'bad' childhood in what was, in effect, a prison but did not realise how awful it really was.

A harrowing story of the Irish State and Religious Communities' utter inhumanity towards the children put in their care and the subsequent attempts by the Irish Government to frustrate any investigations into what went on.

I have sent copies to two of her friends who were incacerated like her. They were delighted with them.

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Edie

Shocking, a vital read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2011

Read this book two years ago - it is a shocking enditement of the Irish Republic and the Catholic Church. The true extent of the collusion between Church and State shocked me beyond belief, and the realisation that is collusion continues in many ways today in the inability of the Government to admit the truth and help the victims will disguist and enrage all readers.

The Irish Independent rightly says each citizen of Ireland should read this, it will forever change your view of Ireland, its Politics and its disturbing history.

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