Ireland in the 20th Century: for countless small children, orphans alone
in the world and children confined in special prisons for some petty
crime against property or for bunking off school, life in institutions
and schools run by Catholic priests and nuns was a childhood-long
nightmare of violence at the hands of nuns, priests and Christian
Brothers (a male, monklike, celibate, teaching order).
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