Founded on Fear
Cover of the 2006 edition | |
| Author | Peter Tyrrell |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Irish Academic Press |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | Ireland |
| ISBN | 9780716534020 |
Founded on Fear: Letterfrack Industrial School, war and exile (concisely known as Founded on Fear) is a memoir, written by Irish activist Peter Tyrrell in 1959 and published posthumously in 2006 by the Irish Academic Press, in which Tyrrell recounted the physical and sexual abuse he experienced and witnessed while incarcerated at St Joseph's Industrial School in Letterfrack, Ireland.
Tyrrell had started writing the book in 1958, at the encouragement of Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, and completed it in 1959; however, it was not published within either of their lifetimes. In 2005, historian Diarmuid Whelan discovered Tyrrell's manuscript in Sheehy-Skeffington's papers.