Rocky Lamonde is a champion of local artists, original material and live music in general. He’s been making music in the Pittsburgh area since 1988, and he’s a flagbearer for old school rock ‘n’ roll ...
In the early '70s, on the strength of "Cabaret," "The Three Musketeers" and "Murder on the Orient Express," Michael York enjoyed a career as a matinee idol. Fair-haired and handsome, York retained a ...
As an adult, Irishman Brendan Behan was known for two things, the vivid plays he wrote (“The Quare Fellow,” “The Hostage”) and the commotions he caused when he was inebriated, which was often. A ...
Ireland's 'Moral Hospital' The Irish Borstal System1906-1956 By Conor Reidy Irish Academic Press256 pp. £45. CONOR REIDY could not have chosen a better time to publish this book. In the media tsunami ...
That we are in the midst of an enduring wave of interest in and appreciation of contemporary Irish writing, and especially Irish women’s writing, both at home and abroad, is an evident truth that is ...
When Jenny Molloy, 40, signed up to play the matron in TV show Bring Back Borstal? – a social experiment based on prison reform methods from the 1930s – inmates didn’t know she was more like them than ...
PlayStations, televisions, central heating and fast food: the teenage criminals who spend 22 hours a day cooped up in their cells at young offenders’ institutions have got it too easy, according to ...
Borstal has become a loaded word. We now associate the prison regime that characterised it with the phrase “Who’s the daddy?” from the controversial film Scum, which featured shocking scenes of ...
In some ways Borstal are as quintessentially British as Ray Winstone battering Phil Daniels with a couple of snooker balls in a sock. They're a supergroup formed by UK hardcore and metal veterans, the ...
You might know care leaver, author and social work champion Jenny Molloy from her best-selling book Hackney Child or any number of her inspirational TV interviews. But if not, you’ll surely recognise ...
A specially-constituted five-judge Bench of the Madras High Court has recommended that the State government repeal the Tamil Nadu Borstal School Act, 1925, since it had outlived its purpose. The Bench ...
Under section 10-A of the A P Borstal School Act, 1925, the convict can be transferred from the central prison to the Borstal school when at the time of conviction he is not less than 16 years and not ...
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