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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, a piece of skillful but specious pleading for the British proletariat, ominously suggests that the battles of World War III may be lost on the playing ...

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 ...

The main boundary wall of Borstal Institute and Juvenile Jail in Faisalabad, has collapsed for the third time while the prison itself has been closed for an indefinite period, Express News reported.

HYDERABAD: The lone Borstal school run by the Telangana State Prisons department - in Nizamabad - at present has only one inmate, as against the capacity of 93 juveniles in conflict with law. Borstal ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Borstal school under construction in Vizianagaram district will take at least another six months to be completed. The Andhra Pradesh government had allotted over 25 acres of land at ...