In their distinctive Thunderbirds-style light-blue uniforms with red
trim the Artane Boys Band are icons of Irish music. For decades, the
band marched around the pitch at Croke Park, Dublin, and played across Ireland, Britain and the US.
But behind this image of boyhood wholesomeness lay a darker truth. Until the 1970s thousands of the young men in the band were being abused, beaten and exploited at the industrial school that gave the ensemble its name.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-church-child-abuse1
But behind this image of boyhood wholesomeness lay a darker truth. Until the 1970s thousands of the young men in the band were being abused, beaten and exploited at the industrial school that gave the ensemble its name.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-church-child-abuse1