Madam, - Your newspaper is not alone in reporting a connection between the film Song For a Raggy Boy and the Christian Brothers. Please permit me to set some aspects of the record straight in the interests of truth and fairness.
Madam, - Your newspaper is not alone in reporting a connection between the film Song For a Raggy Boy and the Christian Brothers. Please permit me to set some aspects of the record straight in the interests of truth and fairness.
Patrick Galvin, the author of the book on which the film is based, never attended any residential or non-residential institution run by the Christian Brothers. In fact, they at no time ran a residential institution for boys in Cork.
The Christian Brothers had nothing to do with Patrick Galvin, his life experiences, his books or with any institution he attended as a child. They have had no contact with Aisling Walsh, who made the film. It would seem fair, therefore, that the Christian Brothers should not have to accept any responsibility for either the fiction or the non-fiction. Their name does not belong in this particular context.- Yours, etc.,
Brother EDMUND GARVEY, Director of Communications,
Christian Brothers, 274 North Circular Road, Dublin 7.