Boys’ Stories of Their Time in a Residential School : ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ (Paperback)

1. Introduction, 2. The List D Schools and St Roch’s, 3. The role of the De La Salle Brothers in the approved and List D Schools, 4. Positioning myself in St Roch’s, 5. The backgrounds of the St Roch’s boys, 6. Education in its widest sense, 7. A sense of care, 8. Discipline and abuse, 9. Moving on and looking back, 10. The age of mistrust: Changing patterns of care and upbringing in neoliberalism, 11. Making sense of the narrative gap, 12. Epilogue: Looking back with sadness and not a little anger