| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14138 | IRE1 | IRE1 | |||
| 14139 | IRE2 | IRE2 | |||
| 14140 | IRE3 | Always in the Convent Shadow | Margaret Matley, Poppy Publications, 1991 | The writer recalls her childhood in a Convent school run by the Good Shepherd Nuns after the death of her mother. | |
| 14141 | IRE4 | Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt, Harper Collins, 1996 | A sad, bittersweet, funny memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in 40s. | |
| 14142 | IRE5 | Bridge Across My Sorrows | Christina Noble with Robert Coram, Corgi Books, 1995 | A book on the Christina Noble's story from growing up in the slums of Dublin to helping the street children of Vietnam. | |
| 14143 | IRE6 | IRE6 | |||
| 14144 | IRE7 | Don’t Ever Tell: Kathy’s story: A tale of a childhood destroyed by neglect and fear | Kathy O'Beirne, Mainstream Publishing, 2006 | With no one to confide in, Kathy suffered in silence as she was battered by her father and molested by local boys. At the age of eight, she was torn from her family and incarcerated in a series of Catholic homes. When she was sent to a psychiatric unit, she suffered terrifying electric-shock therapy and further cruelty at the hands of her supposed carers. After ending up in a Magdalen laundry, she fell victim to sexual abuse and gave birth to baby Annie just weeks before her fourteenth birthday. Don't Ever Tell is Kathy's harrowing account of her ruined childhood and of her subsequent fight for justice. | |
| 14145 | IRE8 | Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland | Frances Finnegan, Oxford University Press, 2004 | A fairly comprehensive but not overly academic look at the asylums in Ireland's Good Shepherd Magdalen Laundries which existed from the late 1800s into the mid 1960s and eared a reputation for their cruelty as opposed to their spiritual foundations. | |
| 14146 | IRE9 | Evelyn: A True Story | Evelyn Doyle, Orian Media, 2002 | The heartrending true story of a Father's fight to reclaim his children from the Irish government in the 1950s and, in the process, free hundreds of other children who had been taken from their families. | |
| 14147 | IRE10 | IRE10 | |||
| 14148 | IRE11 | Fear of the Collar – My Terrifying Childhood in Artane | Patrick Touher, The O'Brien Press, 2001 | The inside story of eight long years spent Artane Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers. | |
| 14149 | IRE12 | For the Love of my Mother | J.P. Rodgers, MacRuairi Art, 2005 | This book is son's portrayal of his mother's life. The writer's mother was sent to the Magdalen Laundries. See IRE31. | |
| 14150 | IRE13 | Freedom of Angels – Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage | Bernadette Fahy, O'Brien Press, 1999 | The inside story of growing up in one of Ireland's most notorious orphanages, where children were made to pay for the 'sins' of their parents. Bernadette tells of the pain, fear, hunger, hard labour and isolation experienced in the orphanage. | |
| 14151 | IRE14 | Kathy’s Story – Inside the hell of Ireland’s notorious Magdalen Sisters’ Laundries | Kathy O'Beirne, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005 | A true story of Kathy's forcible removal from her family and incarcerated in a series of institutions and later placed at a Magdalen Laundry. | |
| 14152 | IRE15 | Mercy College Summerhill Athlone 1998 | Mercy College Summerhill | A booklet on the year 1997/1998. | |
| 14153 | IRE16 | No One Wants You: A true story of a child forced into prostitution | Celine Roberts, Ebury Press, 2008 | A memoir of a child forced into prostitution in rural Ireland and then placed in an Industrial School. | |
| 14154 | IRE17 | Reminiscences of Life in Baltimore Industrial School | Alfie O'Mahony, 2006 | An autobiography on growing up in a Kilkenny Orphanage and Baltimore Industrial School. | |
| 14155 | IRE18 | Sister Genevieve: The story of a remarkable yet little-known heroine of our time | John Rae, Little, Brown and Company, 2001 | Sister Genevieve is the biography of an inspirational headteacher and a fascinating and highly complex woman. It is also a unique insight into the Troubles from the point of view of the ‘civilians' who were living on the front line. A woman of great courage and spirituality, she devoted her life to the education of the girls of West Belfast during the Troubles, defying the Catholic church, the IRA and the British army in her determination to give her underprivileged girls the best possible start in life. | |
| 14156 | IRE19 | IRE19 | |||
| 14157 | IRE20 | IRE20 | |||
| 14158 | IRE21 | The God Squad | Paddy Doyle, Corgi Books, 1988 | This award winning bestseller is a moving and terrifying testament of the institutionalised Ireland. His mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old... | |
| 14159 | IRE22 | The Institute of Charity: Rosminians – Their Irish Story 1860-2003 | Bríd Fahey Bates PHD, Ashfield Press Publishing Services, 2003 | A book detailing the members of the Irish Province of the Institute of Charity and documents the Irish story for the Rosminian community. | |
| 14160 | IRE23 | IRE23 | |||
| 14161 | IRE24 | The Raggy Boy Trilogy | Patrick Galvin, New Island Books, 2002 | A stunning trilogy of memoirs. The first two of the trilogy recount the author's early life in 1930s Cork and brutal suffering at the hands of the Christian Brothers. | |
| 14162 | IRE25 | The Stolen Child: A Memoir | Joe Dunne, Marino Books, 2003 | A true story of growing up in Carriglea Park Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers and Industrial Schools in Kilkenny and Dublin. | |
| 14163 | IRE26 | Please Don’t Make Me Go | John Fenton, Harper Element, 2008 | A memoir on growing up only knowing violence, John after threatening his father with a knife he was sent to St Vincent's School run by the Catholic Irish Brothers. A painfully, brutal honest account that is an example of the resilience of the human spirit as it documents how John learnt to survive and come through his ordeal. | |
| 14164 | IRE27 | Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse – Third Interim Report (December 2003) | Unable to borrow* | ||
| 14165 | IRE28 | Founded on Fear | Peter Tyrrell, edited by Diarimuid Whelan, Transworld Ireland, 2008 | A memoir of a tormented childhood in Letterfrack Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers. | |
| 14166 | IRE29 | The Misremembered Man | Christina McKenna, Amazon Encore, 2008 | A work of fiction that touches on the institutional life in the industrial schools, orphanages and Magdalen Laundries. | |
| 14167 | IRE30 | Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes | Martha Long, Mainstream Publishing, 2007 | The writer details how she was born to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin. | |
| 14168 | IRE31 | For the Love of My Mother 2 | John Rodgers, Headline Review, 2005 | A truly gripping tale told by the son his mother thought she'd lost forever. This book is son's portrayal of his mother's life. The writer's mother's childhood lost to institutions and then she was placed at one of Ireland's infamous Magdalen Laundries. See IRE12. | |
| 14169 | IRE32 | The Boy from Glin Industrial School | Tom Wall (Glin), 2013 | A true story of a childhood spent in St Joseph's Industrial School and Glin Industrial School. This book takes you inside the walls of the Industrial School - run by a Catholic Religious Order - and describes in detail the daily routine of the harsh regime which the boys had to submit to on a day to day basis. | |
| 14170 | IRE33 | The Light in the Window | June Goulding, Poolbeg Press, 1998 | The Irish bestseller describes what happened to countless unmarried women. Jane Goulding, a midwife, arrived at the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and made small changes that made a big difference to the women. | |
| 14171 | IRE34 | IRE34 | |||
| 14172 | IRE35 | Childhood Interrupted – Growing up under the cruel regime of the Sisters of Mercy | Kathleen O'Malley, Virago Press UK, 2005 | A memoir of a stolen childhood spend in Mount Carmel Industrial School run by the Sisters of Mercy in County Westmeath, Ireland. Kathleen and her sisters were subjected to beatings, humiliation, hard labour, and near-starvation, until they were finally permitted to leave at the age of 16. Childhood Interrupted is Kathleen's inspiring, profoundly affecting story. | |
| 14173 | IRE36 | The Boy at the Gate – A Memoir | Danny Ellis, Transworld Ireland, 2012 | A profoundly moving memoir of life in the notorious Artane Industrial School and a testament to the healing power of music and forgiveness. | |
| 14174 | IRE37 | Marilyn’s Child | Lynne Pemberton, Harper Collins Publishers, 2000 | A fictional tale of an orphan who searches for her true identity. | |
| 14175 | IRE38 | Agony Of Desertion | Melissa Barron, Tony Souleiman, 1994 | The compelling true story of a mothers' betrayal and devastating effects it had on her five young children. | |
| 14176 | IRE39 | Suffer the Little Children – The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools | Mary Raftery & Eoin O'Sullivan, New Island, 1999 | A book that exposes a hidden Ireland of Industrial Schools, reform schools, convents and orphanages. | |
| 14177 | IRE40 | Ma, Jackser’s Dyin Alone | Martha Long, Mainstream Publishing, 2013 | A memoir of a books series. On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that finally she will be able to watch him suffer. But in the hospital she sees a frightened, lonely old man and realises with a shock that he seems to regret his earlier actions. During her vigil, she is joined by Charlie, her beloved little brother, then the ma and some of her other siblings. All of them have suffered greatly and it is clear that no one connected to Jackser has escaped unscathed. But as she sits with him during his dying days, other memories of Jackser come back to Martha - fleeting moments of concern and kindness, and a sense of closeness as he recalled his own tormented past in one of Ireland's industrial schools. It is a vicious cycle of cruelty and loss that has played out, from which only her own tenacity and wit has provided an escape. Poignant, ribald, poetic and defiant, with its resolution of many unanswered questions about her life this is Martha at her best. | |
| 14178 | IRE41 | The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search | Martin Sixsmith, Macmillan, 2009 | A nonfiction book about the heartbreaking story of a mother sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary and after caring for her son for three years the Church took him from her and sold him to America for adoption. | |
| 14179 | IRE42 | In Harm’s Way – A childhood lost – A Life Reclaimed | Sean Hogan with Michael Cameron, Arrow Books, 2008 | A biography of Sean Hogan's time at Artane Industrial School. | |
| 14180 | IRE43 | Missing – Missing without a Trace in Ireland | Barry Cummins, Gill & Macmillan, 2003 | The book examines cases of Ireland's missing women and children who have vanished in sinister and mysterious circumstances. | |
| 14181 | IRE44 | Annie’s Girl: How an Abandoned Orphan Finally Discovered the Truth About Her Mother | Maureen Coppinger, Mainstream Publishing, 2009 | Maureen Coppinger's earliest memory is of watching the woman she believed to be her mother walk away and abandon her to the care of the nuns at one of Ireland's notorious industrial schools. She was just three years old. She remained in the orphanage until the age of 16, subjected to cruelty and neglect, and starved of love and affection. It was an environment from which no one emerged unscathed. Throughout these tormented years, Maureen dreamed only of escape, and when she was contacted again by her mammy she believed all her dreams were about to come true. Life in the outside world brought its own challenges, however, and Maureen was thrown into turmoil when she discovered that the truth about her past was more murky than she had ever realised. Annie's Girl stands apart as a poignant testimony to the resilience of the human heart. This touching and evocative memoir is the incredible story of an illegitimate industrial-school survivor's profound struggle to overcome a shame-filled past and solve the mystery of her origins. | |
| 14182 | IRE45 | Goldenbridge – A View From Valparaiso | Teresita Durkan, Veritas Publications, 1997 | The story of Goldenbridge Industrial School. | |
| 14183 | IRE46 | Haunting Cries: Stories of Child Abuse from Irish Industrial Schools | Karen Coleman, Gill & Macmillan, 2010 | Haunting Cries chronicles 11 stories of institutional child abuse in the survivors' own words. It brings the tragic tale of abuse up to date to include the publication and fall-out from the Ryan Commission Report and the Redress Board. The book also adds a fresh -- post-Ryan -- perspective on why the religious orders engaged in such systemic abuse. Up until the Ryan Report, most of them were reluctant to admit to the scale of abuse that their orders meted out to the children in their care. Haunting Cries investigates how they dealt with the damning indictments against them. The stories of the survivors take into account that new perspective. We hear their views on whether the Ryan Commission and the Redress Board have adequately given them the compensation, vindication and justice they feel they deserve. Haunting Cries is an important book. It gives these survivors a voice, allowing us to hear the testimonies of those who for so long were silenced. | |
| 14184 | IRE47 | Inmate 651 – The Luck of the Irish | Michael Coll, Book Hub Publishing, 2019 | The true story of Michael Coll, an Irish child born in a "mother/baby" Home in Stranorlar, in County Donegal, Ireland in 1944 and how his journey lead him to be eventually adopted by an Irish American Family. Appendix includes several articles that give a brief history of conditions in Ireland during the 40's; 50's and 60's when unmarried pregnant women were considered outcast by their own families, the Catholic Church and the Irish Government. | |
| 14185 | IRE48 | Those Who Trespass Against Us: Based on the Life of Walter O’Keeffe | Toni O'Keeffe, Trafford Publishing, 2009 | A disturbing look at the suffering of one small orphaned, Irish boy and the abuse he endured between 1939-1948, when the Irish legal system and the church had gone mad with regard to the care of children. | |
| 14186 | IRE49 | Painful Decisions | Mary Larkin, Sphere, 2007 | A tale of love, romance and jealousy set in 1920s Belfast. | |
| 14187 | IRE50 | Scars that Run Deep – Sometimes the Nightmares Don’t End | Patrick Touher, Ebury Press, 2008 | A memoir of the Artane Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers and the sequel to Fear of the Collar. | |
| 14188 | IRE51 | The National Counselling Service – First Report for adults who have experienced childhood abuse | The Health Boards Executive, from September 2000 to September 2001 | First Report on the establishment of the National Counselling Service, developments, purpose, ethos, achievements so far, making a difference, learning and priorities for those who have experienced childhood abuse. | |
| 14189 | IRE52 | IRE52 | |||
| 14190 | IRE53 | Sworn to Silence | Brendan Boland, Ebury Press, 2014 | A memoir of Brendan's life as an altar boy in Dundalk in Ireland. Brendan traces the grooming and abuse he experienced by Father Smyth. | |
| 14191 | IRE54 | Beyond Belief – Abused by his priest, betrayed by his church, the story of the boy who sued the pope | Colm O'Gorman, Hodder & Stoughton, first published in 2009 & paperback 2010 | The story of one man's fight for justice against the Catholic Church after he was abused by Catholic priest Father Sean Fortune. | |
| 14192 | IRE55 | Little Drifters – Kathleen’s Story – A devastating account of a childhood | Kathleen O'Shea & Katy Weitz, Harper Element, 2014 | Based in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, Kathleen's story is one of extreme hardship and suffering. It is the tale of 11 siblings, abandoned by their mother and torn from their father, incarcerated in convents and then driven apart in the cruellest ways imaginable. But more than that, it is a tale of courage, survival and incredible strength against overwhelming adversities. | |
| 14193 | IRE56 | Secret Child | Gordon Lewis & Andrew Crofts, Harper Element, 2015 | The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin. | |
| 14194 | IRE57 | The Irish in Australia | Patrick O'Farrell, New South Wales University Press, 1987 | A detailed history of the Irish in Australia and their contributions irrespective of class, religion and state of origin. | |
| 14195 | IRE58 | Heritage | Alfie O'Mahony, INSPIRE.ie Production, 2018 | Heritage is a history book containing a series of essays on some of the events and characters in history that interested the author, Alfie. Alfie was placed into an orphanage in Kilkenny where he was a resident for 10 years from 1933 to 1941. Alfie was 10 years of age when he was sent to Baltimore Industrial School. In 2006 Alfie published Reminiscences of life in Baltimore Industrial School, a series of essays. |