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Lonesome Stray - Couverture souple

Rice, Patrick

 
9781434312013: Lonesome Stray
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1434312011 ISBN 13 : 9781434312013
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

The story is based on my life in Institutions in Ireland in the 1930s and '40s, and my subsequent disposal (their word) to a strange woman who took me to an even stranger outside world. As a seventeen-year-old, free for the first time I made my way to the UK to join the forces. Christmas and free time I spent on camp or travelling to different parts of the country, staying overnight at YMCAs and Bed and Breakfast places. That was until, at a small mining village in Co. Durham, I'd found love I'd never known, in the form of an eighteen-year-old factory girl whom I married three years later.It was not until 2006 did I discover why I'd spent my formative years in State custody. Under the Freedom of Information Act, offical documents revealed, I was charged as a two year old at Dublin District Court with receiving Alms. The named judge ordered that I be be detained till my sixteenth birthday.First placed in the custody of the Sisters of Charity in Co. Kilkenny until the age of ten, when I was considered old enough to start work. As a lone child I was transferred to the custody of the Christian Brothers at the notorious 'Artane' Industrial School on the outskirts of Dublin City. Those six years stained my very soal.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Presently I care for my wife, an Alzheimer's sufferer. Afflicted for twelve years, she's been in the 'End Stage' for five years. I chose to remove her from a Nursing Home at the end of 2002 because she was deteriorating fast. Unhappy with the system of care and the lack of understanding of the illness I refused to accept help. In spite of her being little more than skin and bones and given no hope of survival, I managed to return her to physical health. Though she'd lost her speech and the ability to move, I'm happy and privileged to have been granted these extra years with her.We've been married fifty-two years, she'll be seventy-three Oct (2007) and I seventy-six.With no home in Ireland, I came to the UK as a seventeen-year old to join the RAF. I took part in sports and represented the Combined Services and Ireland at one. I retired as a Logistics Sergeant Instructor.On leaving the RAF I worked for BAC in the Middle East. I returned home to spend more time with our youngers daughter. Sadly it was not to be, she was killed with-in weeks of my return. After a year out I returned to the Middle East to work for Lockheed as a Logistics Supervisor and was later promoted to Superintendent of Support Services.At age fifty-four I retired to the dream home in the countryside which I'd promised my wife during the early years of our marriage.Sadly after twenty-five years of enjoying seeing our nine grandchildren flourish in that environment, her Alzheimer's dictated a move to a smaller home.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The story is based on my life in Institutions in Ireland in the 1930s and '40s, and my subsequent disposal (their word) to a strange woman who took me to an even stranger outside world. As a seventeen-year-old, free for the first time I made my way to the UK to join the forces. Christmas and free time I spent on camp or travelling to different parts of the country, staying overnight at YMCAs and Bed and Breakfast places. That was until, at a small mining village in Co. Durham, I'd found love I'd never known, in the form of an eighteen-year-old factory girl whom I married three years later.It was not until 2006 did I discover why I'd spent my formative years in State custody. Under the Freedom of Information Act, offical documents revealed, I was charged as a two year old at Dublin District Court with receiving Alms. The named judge ordered that I be be detained till my sixteenth birthday.First placed in the custody of the Sisters of Charity in Co. Kilkenny until the age of ten, when I was considered old enough to start work. As a lone child I was transferred to the custody of the Christian Brothers at the notorious 'Artane' Industrial School on the outskirts of Dublin City. Those six years stained my very soal.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1434312011
ISBN 13 
9781434312013
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
Coordonnées du fabricant
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