Hitler Hitler & De Valera - - - - - - - - - - A lmost 100,000  Irishmen volunteered to fight against Hitler despite Ireland's "Neutrality". Indeed these men, like their predecessors in WWI have been largely written out of official Irish history.  While 100,000 Irish were fighting and dying in the war against Hitler's Nazi Germany De Valera found time to visit the German Embassy to sign a book of condolences on the "occasion" of Hitler's suicide.  But De...

PUNISH A DAY IN THE LIFE     PUNISHMENT & PERSPECTIVE   When I was recently asked about punishments in those places by someone who was never in those places I think she expected an answer like: "well they used they're hands or fists to box us or clatter us, their feet to boot us and they used blackthorn sticks or big leather belts for more formal punishments." Sounds like an answer that couldn't be denied, even she could relate to those t...

New Page 1 WHAT KIERAN SAID ... about tommo the craze the thing i cant forgive about being in the institutions is when other children used to rob stuff from us. we had very little to and when someone robbed off of you it was very sad. i was sent in a pair of socks from my mother and a shirt and the socks were robbed off of me. it was an awful thing to do. i know who robbed them and he robbed loads of people and us children were afraid of ...

Francie   HAUNTED BY THE DEATH OF AN ORPHAN   O'Brien remains unconvinced by the priests' story A 62 year-old crippled man has relived the night he watched an 11 year-old orphan die because priests looking after him refused to call a doctor when he got sick. Mr. John O'Brien, a former detainee at St. Joseph's Industrial School, Ferryhouse in Clonmel, told how he pleaded with priests to get a doctor to save Francie Hogan, an orphan detained in Ferryhouse.O'Brien has...