Louis Feutren in his SS uniform: taught at St Conleth's College in Ballsbridge for almost 30 years as a proud, unrepentant and self-confessed 'real Nazi'.I am at my desk pondering testimony spanning from the 1960s to 1991 that I have received in recent days from former students at various Irish schools concerning the rampant violence against children by professors and headmasters.
As late as 2021 an issue of Alumni News described Feutren as a “real teacher.” To us, Feutren was a proud, unrepentant and self-confessed “real Nazi” with everything that term implies.headmaster Kevin Kelleher Rather than speak for myself, I’ve asked other former Conlethians what they would wish to make known. They’re mostly younger than I, which seems natural, as by the time the 1980s rolled around, such violence had become unacceptable. For my older generation – I am the class of 1971 – the staff’s violence seemed invisible, part of the natural order of things, a sinister background sizzle that we knew not how to question.
Picking out at random from the mountain of testimony I have received from Conlethians who have searched me out on social media, these phrases appear.