I don't have personal experience of a parent or Grandparent in an industrial school but I have been looking at the effects of intergenerational trauma related to Irish people for a few years now.
I'm a writer of Irish heritage but born in Wales to parents who were born in England but with Irish grandparents.
My grandparents all came to England and Wales to escape poverty.
The idea of intergenerational trauma has fascinated me ever since I realised I had an inate fear of institutions and that I'd probably 'learned' this from my Grandparents and parents.
This effects me in so many ways....I have long had an almost physical reaction to large, government run buildings and even fear the doctor, schools, churches and others.
I also caught myself many times repeating my Grandmother's words whenever times were tight "Oh well, there's no workhouses any more"
A slightly more random piece of information is that when I had my first child, I had to have an emergency c section due to narrow pelvis.
The consultant said it was so narrow it was almost like a man's.
Later, in looking up the history of Irish orphans arriving in Australia (like cargo...sent to populate the country and as maids and wives in the 1800s) I learned that when they settled and married, their diet improved so rapidly that once pregnant, their unborn babies grew to such a size due to a much improved diet, that many of these women could not physically give birth to them.
Their frames were too small...and these unborn babies had grown too large and many rough c sections were performed with varying success.
I always wondered if my experience was something related to that.