Letterfrack forms Irish entry for Venice exhibition of architecture

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / September 11 2004: Letterfrack forms Irish entry for Venice exhibition of architecture

The Irish Times

Artist and writer Gerard Mannix Flynn gave a dramatic glimpse of the harsh life in Letterfrack Industrial School here yesterday, when he performed the official opening of Ireland's pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The Irish entry for the exhibition "Metamorph", which has transformation, or metamorphosis, as its theme, is the partially completed transformation of Letterfrack reformatory in Connemara into a furniture college. It is the project of Dublin-based architects O'Donnell and Tuomey. Holding an international audience spellbound, Mr Flynn - a one-time inmate of Letterfrack - railed against "those Christians who call themselves brothers" for the abuses perpetrated against boys in the remote, harsh reformatory.

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