Coercive Confinement in Post CB: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents

by Eoin O'Sullivan and Ian O'Donnell

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 provides a wealth of contemporaneous accounts of what life was like within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719086485
• ISBN13: 9780719086489
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"