Boy 11963
An Irish Industrial School Childhood and an Extraordinary Search for Home
$68.26
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2022
Summary
Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart-breaking or necessary as in this powerful story of human vulnerability and failure - and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. - JOE DUFFY
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, John Cameron tells his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529346367 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529346363 |
| Author: | John Cameron |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Imprint: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
John Cameron
John Cameron (1935-2022) was in his mid-eighties when his bestselling memoir Boy 11963 was published to wide acclaim in 2021. It tells the remarkable story of his early life in care, his time in Dublin’s Artane Industrial School, and his later search for his origins.
A father of five, John, a former schoolteacher, was husband to Treasa. They lived in Gorey, Wexford.
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