2019-04-302019-04-302007O’Keeffe, A. and Breen, M. (2007) “ ‘At the hands of the Brothers: a corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of stance in newspaper reporting of child sexual abuse”. In J. Cotterill (Ed.) The Language of Sex Crimes. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 217-236.978-0-230-59278-0https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2876Book chapter in J. Cotterill (Ed.) "The Language of Sexual Crime."Over the last twenty years, the Irish people were confronted with a series of scandalous revelations about clergy and religious in Ireland; starting with the discovery that Eamonn Casey, while Bishop of Kerry, had fathered a child, through the scandals of child sexual abuse by priests and brothers to the present day investigation into religious-run industrial schools. All of these events have been covered in great detail by the Irish media. This article examines one specific dimension of media coverage of those events – the representation of the Industrial Schools run by the Irish Christian Brothers, and the Brothers themselves.enghttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230001701CorpusLexico-grammatical analysisStanceNewspaper reportingChild sexual abusePart/ Chapter of book