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Deafness of the Mind: The Forgotten Children of Boston Spa

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Located in: Rossendale, United Kingdom

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Condition: Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ... Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9780956475602

Publication Year: 2010

Type: Textbook

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Deafness of the Mind: the Forgotten Children of Boston Spa

Item Height: 198mm

Author: Kevin Fitzgerald

Publisher: Kevin Fitzgerald

Genre: Biographies & True Stories

Topic: Disability

Item Width: 127mm

Number of Pages: 216 Pages

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When Kevin Fitzgerald was a kid in Collyhurst, Manchester in the 1940s, it was a completely different place from today, with its flowers, trees and grass. That is not to say that it was a bad place, despite the bomb sites and crofts. In many ways it was a good place to live, especially in Collyhurst Flats, where everybody knew each other and neighbours were always ready to help and lend a hand. As the years have all too quickly passed there cannot be many people left now who can remember the horrors of the Manchester blitz, which Kevin vividly describes in this book. Kevin had a happy childhood, playing with his mates in the streets, getting up to mischief like normal healthy kids. Tragically, all this was to change when he contracted meningitis after an accident whilst playing amongst the bomb-scarred landscape. This left him profoundly deaf and at the mercy of so-called expertsA and the subjective dogma of the Catholic Church. Consequently, he was packed off to St John's Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, where he spent the next eight years in a state of virtual incarceration at the hands of the Church and the sisters who were its jailers. Deafness of the Mind is the story of that incarceration. It is a story that will enthral you; it will make you smile and also make you weep as Kevin recounts his life in the institution, the friends he made there and the camaraderie that was forged in those years of wartime Britain, a camaraderie that has lasted right up to the present day, nearly seventy years later. Moreover, Kevin sheds light on how generations of deaf children were treated as second class citizens, denied a proper education and eventually forced out into the world totally unprepared for life on the outside. Deafness of the Mind is a book that you will enjoy, despair at the treatment meted out to deaf children, and, undoubtedly, learn something from.

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Kevin Fitzgerald

ISBN-13

9780956475602

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Book Title

Deafness of the Mind: the Forgotten Children of Boston Spa

Author

Kevin Fitzgerald

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Topic

Disability

Publication Year

2010

Type

Textbook

Genre

Biographies & True Stories

Number of Pages

216 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height

198mm

Item Width

127mm

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Kevin Fitzgerald

Country/Region of Manufacture

United Kingdom

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