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Victim and Critic

August 2001

M.A. in Culture, Religion and Society 2001

Victim and Critic: Child Mistreatment in Ireland

A Sociological and Literary View by.

Mary Killion

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Regulations for the Attainment of the Degree of Master of Arts in Culture, Religion and Society in Modern Ireland.

National Univerity of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Department of English

Head of Department:
Professor Brian Cosgrove

Research Supervisors:
Dr. Chris Morash
Dr. Peter Murray

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Table 1: Details of children in Reformatory and Industrial Schools on 30th Sept 1969
Table 2: Grounds for Committal to Industrial Schools
Chapter 1: Institutional care - an historical outline
Chapter 2: Response of Church and State
Chapter 3: Victim and Critic - Patrick McCabe's Butcher Boy.
Chapter 4: Hidden Ireland - the broken childhood of Paddy Doyle
Chapter 5: Stranger than fiction - the story of Brendan O'Donnell
Conclusion
Bibliography