Coercive Confinement in Ireland
Eoin Sullivan, Ian O'Donnell
Manchester University Press, 2012
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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. -- .
- ISBN-13
- 9780719086489
- ISBN-10
- 0719086485
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-06-30
- Pages
- 320
- Dimensions
- 241x156x29
- Weight
- 658