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The Avenue: A History of the Claremont Institution Picture

The Avenue: A History of the Claremont Institution

Rachel Pollard

This is the story of Ireland's first ever school for the deaf from its establishment in 1816 to its closure in 1978. Detailed are the social conditions experienced within and outside the school including religious persecutions in the 1850's when some pupils were kidnapped from the school and former pupils suffered intimidation at home and at work. Extensively researched and illustrated.

Paperback 326 pages 2006

£16.50

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The Avenue: A History of the Claremont Institution,0955323908 Copyright © Forest Books Ltd., 2007. All Rights Reserved.