Evelyn

A True Story

Nonfiction, History, British, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Evelyn Doyle ISBN: 9781409101093
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Publication: December 30, 2011
Imprint: Orion Language: English
Author: Evelyn Doyle
ISBN: 9781409101093
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Publication: December 30, 2011
Imprint: Orion
Language: English

Told through the eyes of his daughter Evelyn, this is the true story of a father's fight to reclaim his children from the Irish government in the 1950s, now a major film.

Desmond Doyle, 29, a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the infamous Fatima Mansions in Dublin in 1953. One day he comes home to find his wife has left him. He decides to go to England to find work and is advised to put his children into the state Industrial Schools system for a short time until he returns. When he returns he is told to his horror that the children have been consigned to the state until they are 16.

This is the story of how Desmond Doyle fought the Irish legal system to change the law and win back his family.

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Told through the eyes of his daughter Evelyn, this is the true story of a father's fight to reclaim his children from the Irish government in the 1950s, now a major film.

Desmond Doyle, 29, a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the infamous Fatima Mansions in Dublin in 1953. One day he comes home to find his wife has left him. He decides to go to England to find work and is advised to put his children into the state Industrial Schools system for a short time until he returns. When he returns he is told to his horror that the children have been consigned to the state until they are 16.

This is the story of how Desmond Doyle fought the Irish legal system to change the law and win back his family.

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