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Mon 05 May 2009The poor - how terrified we were of them
Last week the middle-aged were forced to recall the Ireland of their youth, where respectability was the only ideal
LAST WEEK was a terrible time to be a middle-aged Irish person, and presumably this week isn’t going to be much better. Because we remember the orphanages, the industrial schools – whatever inaccurate term was applied to them – the prisons that they kept the poor children in.
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