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Dublin folklorist, author and Manager of North Inner City Folklore Project/Museum Terry Fagan writes::

“This is Peadar and me, aged 16. Peadar is my best pal, he’s on the left in photo. We lived in Corporation Buildings [then on Corporation Street, now James Joyce Street, Dublin 1]. He escaped from an Industrial School in Cork and made it home. I remember a police raid on his room. We escaped out the back window five stories up. We got onto the roof top.”

Terry adds:

“He was captured by the police, who surrounded Corporation Buildings. He was sent back to the Industrial School where he was severely beaten. He made another escape after his wounds healed and he made it back home. Again he was captured. We are the only two alive who fought back.”

North Inner City Folklore Project

Previously: Heroes Of The Corporation Buildings

Sentenced To Seven Years

Dublin folklorist and author Terry Fagan tweetz:

Corporation Buildings 1960. When I look back at the old photos of where I was born, my pals and me raced along those long balconies playing Cowboys and Indians.

In a few short years some of us would be hiding on the rooftops to avoid capture after escaping from industrial schools.

Terry adds:

…Not everybody stood by and did nothing to help children.

The docker Jemmy Gunnery rescued children from the horror camps.

This is Pauleen  (above) – one of the last women alive who hid children in her tenement room.

The photo she’s pointing to is where she hid my brother in Corporation Buildings in the 1960s.

Any excuse.

Previously: Sentenced To Seven Years