History Professor Moira Maguire’s publisher has just released her new book titled Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland. Ten years in the making, the study focuses on how Irish society failed poor and marginalized children after its war of independence with Great Britain.

“The Departments of Health and Education, who had legal responsibility for the children involved, failed in their duties to provide for and protect them,” she said.

Maguire’s research was included in the Ryan Report, an investigation by the Irish government through the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse into all forms of abuse in Irish institutions for children.

Here is a brief clip from last June of Dr. Maguire talking about her research and upcoming book:
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