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...
A moving and terrifying testament of the institutionalised Ireland of only twenty-five years ago, as seen through the bewildered eyes of a child. A remarkable true story of a survivor, told with an extraordinary lack of bitterness for one so shockingly and shamefully treated.
