Freedom of Angels: Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage

by Bernadette Fahy

Book Overview

'I entered Goldenbridge orphanage in my Communion outfit. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing there.' At age seven, Bernadette Fahy was delivered with her three brothers to Goldenbridge... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0862785952
• ISBN13: 9780862785956
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Harrowing, inspiring account of orphanage life

This is a surpisingly objective account in places, but it's interesting to see how the author, a qualified counsellour, often reverts back to a childhood linguistic mode when describing her early experiences. She's conscious of the effect that living in an orpanage has on the way she percieves the world as a whole. At times it feels like the book is written by 2 different authours, one a badly scarred orpanage vitim, the other an impartial commentator. it works, though, it's often harrowing and should be enough to make anyone who perpetuated the institionalised cruelty of these institiutions feel ashamed. It's an angry, but not necessacarily bitter book that deserves a wide audience in Ireland and elsewhere.