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Disband the Artane Band

St Josephs Industrial School, Tralee, Co Kerry

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Band of St Josephs Industrial School Tralee, disbanded when the industrial school was closed. 1862-1970 - Christian Brothers Industrial School

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St Joseph's Industrial School, Tralee. Band and Irish dancers before the institution was closed .

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Baltimore Fisheries Industrial School. Closed in 1950. The 36-piece band went to locations all over West Cork. The band’s uniform was a copy of the royal navy’s ratings uniform and the instruments bore the logo of the former fisheries school. They were known as 'blue legs'.
The head priest, a Kerryman, Fr McCarthy, spent two days incinerating the institution’s records before the building was abandoned in 1950. Baltimore Industrial School was a reformatory for orphans and young offenders.  By the time the institution closed, in 1950, the only trace of the hundreds of boys that passed through its doors was a sheet of paper containing a list of names, from 1930 to 1950.

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