Diário de Notícias, Sábado, 17 de Outubro de 2009

PATRÍCIA VIEGAS, em Dublim

Ireland1
Ireland2
Ireland3
Ireland4

This timeline has been outlined textually with images in the permanent page A History of Neglect (see menu at top of page). The actual graphics for this timeline have also been recently added, and only omitted because of lack of time. However, there have been many requests for this graphical timeline, and so it is being highlighted here, and will remain for easy access under the History of Negect category.

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The number of children committed to industrial schools by the Courts steadily declined from 833 at the time that the Irish Republic was declared in 1949 to merely 162 in 1968-69, when the industrial schools began to be closed down.

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