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Galway Advertiser
BY MARY O'CONNOR
An award winning actor, writer and artist who was subjected to abuse as a child in Letterfrack Industrial School returns there on Friday to present a play drawn from his traumatic experience.
Gerard Mannix Flynn, who was born in Dublin, will present James X & Safe House / Safe Place in the former industrial school in Connemara. Some 400 guests, including city and county councillors and religious representatives, are invited.
The 48-year-old, whose work has dealt with issues such as institutional abuse, imprisonment and injustice, says the presentation aims to make a positive contribution to the greater processs of reconciliation which he hopes will take place one day.
“As a society, we have been overwhelmed by the enormity and scale of the systemic abuse of children in residential institutions run by the Catholic congregations of religious orders and by the lack of an adequate response from those responsible.
Posted by kshaw at June 3, 2005 03:51 PM