Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents

by Eoin O'Sullivan, Ian O'Donnell, Eoin Sullivan

Book Overview

This book 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 that was integral to the emerging state. The book, now available in paperback after performing superbly in hardback, provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071909545X
• ISBN13: 9780719095450
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"