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• n  formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison

• The borstal boys are an uncouth lot, mostly representative scum of the urban slums, yet their individual characters and common humanity are finely delineated by the superb Dublin .

Quotes

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• Mark Thompson in The Guardian
  I missed Dog Borstal, I don't know whether you managed to catch it,joked Thompson. "It sounds potentially rather interesting."