It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Bessborough Mother and Baby Home by Michael Dwyer
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Bessborough was Ireland's most notorious Mother & Baby Home. From 1922 to 1998 almost 20,000 women and children passed through its doors. In the first book of its kind, historian Michael Dwyer takes us inside Bessborough. Using an array of historical sources, Dwyer pieces together the relationship between the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts who ran the home, the local authorities who paid them to maintain women and children there and the state departments who oversaw its operation. Dwyer charts Bessborough's 76 year history and addresses the many controversies surrounding the Mother & Baby Home...
Bessborough Mother and Baby Home by Michael Dwyer is 382 pages long, and a total of 96,264 words.
This makes it 129% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 46 minutes to read Bessborough Mother and Baby Home aloud.
Bessborough Mother and Baby Home is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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