Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents

by EoinO'Sullivan (Author), IanO'Donnell (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $96.30

  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. -- .