I recall clearly a shocking conversation that I had about 20 years
ago, with a fine man from Tralee, Co. Kerry about the Christian Brothers
Industrial School in that town. He recalled that some of the boys
confined in the industrial school attended classes with him in The
Green, the brothers' local high school. He remembered that when the
final bell rang to end the school day they would bolt for their living
quarters because if they tarried at all they claimed they would be
beaten.
My other memory of that conversation is much more disturbing. He told me that local people would sometimes hear screams at night from the school. As a teenager, he was surprised by this and asked his father, who worked as a laborer in the town, what was going on to cause such nocturnal cries.
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My other memory of that conversation is much more disturbing. He told me that local people would sometimes hear screams at night from the school. As a teenager, he was surprised by this and asked his father, who worked as a laborer in the town, what was going on to cause such nocturnal cries.
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