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tytuł / title: KATHY'S STORY. A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries

seria / serie:

autor / author: Kathy O'Beirne

wydanie / publication: 2006 Mainstream Publishing

format / size: 15,5 cm X 23,5 cm

okładka / cover: miękka, kolorowa

ilość stron / pages: 223

ISBN: 1-84[zasłonięte]-968-1

typ / type: używana / used

stan książki / condision of book: dobry minus / good minus (zagięcia i otarcia na okładce; nieco małych plamek wewnątrz książki i na jej brzegu)

Opis treści / summary:

Publikacja zawiera 20 czarno-białych i kolorowych fotografii dotyczących treści.

'I feel my story had to be told. It was like a volcano inside me always ready to explode. So much evil was done and there was a voice inside me shouting, "Justice". Not just for me but for so many, many more.'

Kathy O'Beirne earliest memories are of being battered and sexually abused. Unable to confide in anyone about the beatings she regularly received from her father or about the boys who made her play dirty games, she became withdrawn and self-destructive, leading a psychiatrists to diagnose has as 'a child with a troublesome mind'.

As a result, aged only eight, Kathy was removed from the family home and incarcerated in a series of institutions. In the first, a reformatory school run by a holy order on behalf of the Irish State, she was raped by a visiting priest. When she tried to get help, she was transferref to the children's unit of a psychiatric hospital, where the abuse continued, along with the administration of large amounts of drugs and electric shock treatment.

At the age of twelve, Kathy was sent to a Magdalen laundry. These notorious workhouses operated in Ireland throughout the twentieth century and during that time thousands of young girls, some orphans, some pregnant and some considered 'at risk' in the community, were forced to slave in horrendous conditions. Locked away from their families and the outside world, many of the girls were cruelly published and sexually abused by the staff or lay visitors.

Kathy fell victim to one of these predators and gave birth to baby Annie just weeks before her fourteenth birthday. The little girl had a serious health condition but lived to the age of ten, providing the only light in Kathy's blighted life.

After all that she has suffered, Kathy has now come forward to tell her harrowing story in the hope that more will be done to help survivors of institutional abuse. She recounts her tragic experiences in unflinching detail but what is most remarkable is the strength of character that shines throughsuch a dark tale. It is this strength that has enabled her to survive and fired her continuing struggle for justice.