A determination to expose brutality

“MY story, which is true, should be published in my own name.”

These are the words of a Letterfrack abuse victim, written shortly before he burnt himself to death on Hampstead Heath in 1967.

Despite years spent campaigning, and writing to politicians, priests and presidents, Peter Tyrrell’s cries for justice went unheard until a manuscript chronicling his life was discovered in the private papers of Senator Owen Sheehy Skeffington.