Boy 11963 : an Irish industrial school childhood and an extraordinary search for home
At only five months old, John Cameron was abandoned in a Dublin orphanage and fostered out as a child labourer by age three. In 1944 when he turned eight, he was incarcerated in Artane Industrial School, where he became boy 11963. Now in his mid-eighties, he tells his shocking but inspirational story for the first time. As a child, reduced to a number, he survived savage assaults, sexual abuse and the tragic deaths of children around him. Along w...
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