Kieran Healy

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It was an amazing place, reeking of modernity, with a swimming pool, a language laboratory, a science lab. It was a future that had arrived. But it still contained Brother Plum. He taught Latin, but he also seemed to have been given this special job of supervising the first years. What made this interesting was that this suited him best. The younger boys were less likely to know what to do when he started fondling them.
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
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