Coercive confinement in Ireland

Coercive confinement in IrelandProvides 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.

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It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media and politics to an unprecedented extent

A collection of translated legal sources charting the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c

his filmic images reveal a fascination with stillness

150 colour and b&w illus

A great read

The book explores Richards’ ideas about anonymity

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and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africa’s post-colonial and post-apartheid history

From a comparative east-west perspective

and of how soldiers in trenches organised the routines of feeding

This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present