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Your anonymised data includes your information, the pages you visit on Independent.ie, and products or services you buy from us. March 2021 } return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 [22] There was no punishment book kept and the Department of Education was found to be at fault for not ensuring that one was maintained. Proof of Letterfrack's substantial profits comes from the Brothers' internal records. John Healy looks at the history of Letterfrack industrial school, following Manix Flynn's recent documentary, 'Land without God' Those sent by the Local Authorities pursuant to the Public Assistance Act 1939. May 2020 The tiny heart shaped plaques are placed there in memory of the boys who died in the school. const meterStats = JSON.parse(getCookie('subscriptionwall_meter_stats') || '{}'); const showOrderSummary = function (node, priceId) { onboarding_article = 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/'; document.getElementById('discover_more_banner').href = onboarding_article; Letterfrack Industrial School. window.shopFrontHeaderSubscribe = false; let bundle_info = bundles.filter(function (bundle) { const isUpgrades = false; Brother David Gibson, provincial of the . if (window.location.href.indexOf("#annual") > -1) { const priceToEcommerceProduct = function (price, index) { He describes seeing boys being beaten senseless, \u0026amp;quot;turned into gibberish\u0026amp;quot;, for trying to escape.The school is now a furniture college, and the headquarters of the excellent Connemara Local Radio station. a poem. function setPriceSelected(priceID) { 10. November 24, 1977 issue Vclav Havel // Flatten the array by 1 level. // Since the user is a subscriber, the wall is no longer visible. const badgeMap = {}; successful_upgrade_redirect_url = 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/'; ecommerce: { }; productClickSource = null; if (userHasLoggedIn === true) { } let upgrade_bundles = []; : [selectedPrice] Far from engaging merely in menial work, Brother Tobin had become a senior leading figure within Letterfrack. product.quantity = 1; Visited there in August of 2018. localStorage.removeItem('price.selected'); {"gigya.api.key":"4_CO8231Ix1RbYi2EmMbsrlw","gigya.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.mobile.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.authFlow.redirect":"true","gigya.check.enabled":"true","gigya.check.host":"gigya-check.independent.ie","competitions.submit.endpoint":"https://competitions-api.independent.ie/entries","competitions.api.key":"0b15feaa-62b2-45a2-8244-723a9e80748e","subscriptionwall.cookie-domain":".independent.ie","subscriptionwall.metered.missing.fields":"data.occupation,data.phone,data.salutation,data.yearofbirth,profile.firstName,profile.lastName","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.home-delivery":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium-plus":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium-plus/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/","kaching.enabled":"true","outbrain.kaching.enabled":"true","quantcast.enabled":"false","didomi.enabled":"true","social-embed-consent-wall.enabled":"true","homepage.regional.sections.mapping":"Cork:regionals/corkman/:corkman,Dublin:regionals/dublin/:dublin,Kerry:regionals/kerryman/:kerryman,Louth:regionals/louth/:louth,Sligo:regionals/sligochampion/:sligochampion,Wexford:regionals/wexford/:wexford,Wicklow:regionals/wicklow/:wicklow","active_cmp":"didomi"} {"url":"https://shared.mediahuis.be/ka-ching/independent/ka-ching.umd.js?20210830","adunit":"m.independent.ie/Opinion/Analysis","targeting":{"art_id":"26248240","article_id":"26248240","kw":["St","Joseph","of","Letterfrack","the","cruel","saint"],"gs_channels":["gs_notprocessed"],"article_type":"premium"},"platform":"MOB","pageType":"Article","pagePaid":true,"lazyload":true} {"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"St Joseph of Letterfrack, the cruel saint","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Independent.ie","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://m.independent.ie/theme/_base/"},"@id":"independent.ie"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.independent.ie/theme/amp/images/0bafced9f7194fe484475000f0550f64.jpg","height":"700","width":"1240"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.independent.ie/"},"dateCreated":"2007-05-13T11:41:10.000Z","dateModified":"2012-11-24T14:55:22.000Z","datePublished":"2001-04-21T23:11:00.000Z","keywords":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://www.independent.ie/theme/amp/images/0bafced9f7194fe484475000f0550f64.jpg","author":{"@type":"Person","name":""},"description":"The brutal regime of work at this bleak institution meant that its defenceless inmates didn\u0026#039;t even get the schooling the Brothers were paid to provide, says Mary Raftery. console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); }); Letterfrack or Letterfrac is a small village in the Connemara area of County Galway, Ireland. } else { In other words, the view was taken that their parents were not fit to look after them.Up to the mid-1950s, there were some \u0026amp;quot;infants\u0026amp;quot; at the school. }); event: 'ee-productImpression', successful_upgrade_redirect_url: 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/', } else { // Reset the positions after the flatten. document.getElementById('fp-tog-1').click(); I was in Connemara yesterday and I took a walk around the grounds of GMIT Letterfrack. 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