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Boy 11963: An Irish Industrial School Childhood and an Extraordinary Search for Home

English

By (author): John Cameron

'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 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 with other forgotten boys, he battled for his life against the heartless adversity of the church and the Irish state.

As a young man - a much-loved schoolteacher devoted to his growing family - John was haunted by his unknown past and embarked on a lifelong quest to unravel the truth about his origins. Buried in a labyrinth of lies, he finally uncovered a story of forbidden love and passion that scandalised rural Ireland and made national headlines in the 1930s.

Boy 11963 is a unique account of overcoming almost insurmountable obstacles to find out who you truly are.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 440g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
  • Publication City/Country: Ireland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529346343

About 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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