Anyone born before 1977 won\u2019t have had experience of being beaten by teachers in Ireland\u2019s schools when corporal punishment was still part of a child's education. It took 60 years after we gained our independence before a patently barbaric practice inflicted on the children of our nation was outlawed, but such punishment was finally banned in 1982. \n\nProduced by Brian Byrne for Kilcullen Diary.