Lonesome Stray - Softcover

Rice, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434312011 ISBN 13: 9781434312013

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The story is based on my life in Institutions in Ireland in the 1930s and '40s, and my subsequent disposal (their word) to a strange woman who took me to an even stranger outside world. As a seventeen-year-old, free for the first time I made my way to the UK to join the forces. Christmas and free time I spent on camp or travelling to different parts of the country, staying overnight at YMCAs and Bed and Breakfast places. That was until, at a small mining village in Co. Durham, I'd found love I'd never known, in the form of an eighteen-year-old factory girl whom I married three years later.It was not until 2006 did I discover why I'd spent my formative years in State custody. Under the Freedom of Information Act, offical documents revealed, I was charged as a two year old at Dublin District Court with receiving Alms. The named judge ordered that I be be detained till my sixteenth birthday.First placed in the custody of the Sisters of Charity in Co. Kilkenny until the age of ten, when I was considered old enough to start work. As a lone child I was transferred to the custody of the Christian Brothers at the notorious 'Artane' Industrial School on the outskirts of Dublin City. Those six years stained my very soal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1434312011
• ISBN 13: 9781434312013
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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