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Cruelty Man

Name: Cruelty Man
ISBN: 9781526102713

by Sarah-Anne Buckley

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First published: 2013 1 language ISBN: 9781526102713

Description

In Ireland, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) was the principle organisation involved in investigating families and protecting children. The 'cruelty men', as NSPCC inspectors were known, acted as child protection workers and 'children's police'. This book looks at their history as well as the history of Ireland's industrial schools, poverty in Irish families, changing ideas around childhood and parenthood and the lives of children in Ireland from 1889 to 1956.