The first borstal opened 100 years ago this week, establishing a method of dealing with troubled boys that lasted much of the past century. Here, Ron Lovelock recalls how he came to spend two years in ...

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 ...

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 ...