Gerry Kelly was only six months old and too young to remember when he was sent to a home because his 18-year-old Catholic mother wasn't married and his father was a Protestant.
But he remembers all too well the rampant and horrific sexual, emotional and physical abuse from the Christian Brothers in Artane industrial school in Dublin in the 1960s.
Gerry and others abuse survivors told their stories to Lord Mayor of Dublin Eibhlin Byrne yesterday as Dubliners, shocked by this week's report on cruelty in institutions run by Catholic orders, lined up to sign a Book of Solidarity for the victims in the Mansion House.
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Ms Byrne said she had found a huge amount of anger and upset at the revelations and had set up the book of solidarity as she felt an outlet of some kind was needed.
"It's so sad. You have grown men breaking down in front of children. They want to know someone is listening and hearing what they are saying," she said.
Ms Byrne said the Mansion House will be open for the book signing to-day "and as long as we feel people want to come".
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