Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools

'Suffer the Little Children esposes a hidden Ireland of industrial schools, reform schools, convents, orphanages, places of such burtality, even savagery, you will wince from page to page. But wincing isn't enough. The value of this powerful book is that it might force us to look, wherever we are, at the least among us--the powerless, the children.' -- Frank McCourt (author of Angela's Ashes)

'Suffer the Little Children throws light, for the first time, on the darkest episode in the history if independent Ireland. The levels of official cruelty, indifference, and inhumanity it discloses are deeply shocking.' -- Colm Toibin (Booker Prize Nominee)

'A terrible and splendid book. This story, one of immense national disgrace, will not wuickly go away.' -- Justin Keating (former Irish Government Minister)