Balmoral Working Boys' Home, Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
The Balmoral Working Boys' Home was established in 1899 at 27-29 May Street, Belfast. It could accommodate 50 Protestant boys aged from 14 to 16. The home received boys from Belfast's Balmoral Industrial School and other Protestant boys' home in the area. It acted as a halfway house for those moving from institutional care into adult employment in the outside world.
By 1920, the home had moved to 3-5 Clarendon Place, Belfast, but appears to have closed by 1930.
Records
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- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9HQ.
Bibliography
- Arnold, Mavis, and Laskey, Heather Children of the Poor Clares (2004, Appletree Press)
- Barnes, Jane Irish Industrial Schools 1868-1908 (1989, Irish Academic Press)
- Dunne, Joe The Stolen Child: A Memoir (2003, Marion Books)
- Rafferty, Mary and O'Sullivan, Eoin Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools (1999, New Island Books)
- Touher, Patrick Fear of the Collar: Artane Industrial School — My Extraordinary Childhood (1991, O'Brien Press)
- Tyrrell, Peter and Whelan, Diarmuid Founded on Fear: Letterfrack Industrial School (2006, Irish Academic Press)
- Wall, Tom The Boy from Glin Industrial School (2015, Tom Wall)
Links
- Glencree Reconciliation Centre (former Reformatory site)
- The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
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