Coercive Confinement in Ireland Patients, Prisoners and Penitents |
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| Author:
| Sullivan, Eoin
O'Donnell, Ian |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7190-8648-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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Provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons and Borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement integral to the emerging state.
Provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons and Borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement integral to the emerging state.