Academic papers on physical abuse in Irish schools

  • ‘“A Good Beating Never Hurt Anyone”: The Punishment and Abuse of Children in Twentieth Century Ireland’, Ó Cinnéide, Séamus and Maguire, Moira J.. , Journal of Social History, 38:3 (2005): 635–52.Google Scholar

  • Telling Tales – Cruelty and abuse in schooling in Ireland, Gerry Jeffers, Education Department, Maynooth University Co. Kildare - https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/7892/

  • Ferriter, Diarmaid. ‘Suffer Little Children? The Historical Validity of Memoirs of Irish Childhood’, in Dunne, Joseph and Kelly, James, eds., Childhood and Its Discontents. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2003: 69–106.Google Scholar

  • Maguire, Moira J. Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.Google Scholar

  • Molino, Michael R. ‘The “House of a Hundred Windows”: Industrial Schools in Irish Writing’, New Hibernia Review, 5:1 (2001): 33–52.Google Scholar

  • O’Sullivan, Eoin and O’Donnell, Ian. Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.Google Scholar

  • "The Irish Abuse Survival Memoir": Discusses autobiographical accounts of childhood abuse in Ireland - Chapter 23 -  https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/a-history-of-irish-autobiography/4CE4C02E8650335B004C064F6D29F6DE

  • Shining Light on Silence: Corporal Punishment as an Abuse of Power in the Irish School System - Timothy Quinlan - https://journals.openedition.org/etudesirlandaises/11857

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