The Avenue, a history of Ireland's first school for deaf children - The Claremont Institution - has been written by Rachel Pollard.

Inspired by the many courageous and intelligent Irish deaf people from the 19th and 20th centuries, Pollard describes how the school was set up in May 1816, with six deaf boys as pupils and two rooms in a Smithfield prison as classrooms. In 1819 the number of applications increased, including girls for the first time, and the school moved to a large house called 'Claremont', in Glasnevin, two miles north of Dublin - hence the name: The Claremont Institution.

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