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Desmond Doyle, 29 a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the infamous Fatima Mansions in Dublin in 1953. One day he comes home to find his wife has left him. He decides to go to England to find work and is advised to put his children into the state Industrial Schools system for a short time until he returns. When he returns he is told to his horror that the children have been consigned to the state until they are 16. This is the story of how Desmond Doyle fought the Irish legal system to change the law and win back his family. Told through the eyes of Evelyn, Desmond's nine-year-old daughter, this is a heartrending true story beautifully told.Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139780752842868
eBay Product ID (ePID)86566917
Product Key Features
Book TitleEvelyn: a True Story
AuthorEvelyn Doyle
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGovernment, Health
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height178mm
Item Width111mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorEvelyn Doyle
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom