There are several reasons as to why the Irish Catholic Church might have made Frank’s childhood a misery, to start; his religion was forced on him. Growing up, Frank attended both the Catholic Church and school and during those times, since the clergy had such immense power of the society, they worked together hand-in-hand. Because the church is in control of the school, it is also in control of the students and can decide what they should learn and not and it is in the schools that the children are prepared for First Communion and Confession. In preparation for the First Communion the children have to learn “(…) the catechism backwards, forwards and sideways [and] the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Virtues, Divine and Moral, the Seven
