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Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents Eoin Sullivan
Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents
Eoin Sullivan
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. -- .
324 pages, 9 black & white tables, 5 graphs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 30, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780719095450 |
| Publishers | Manchester University Press |
| Pages | 324 |
| Dimensions | 159 × 235 × 20 mm · 518 g |
| Language | English |