Insanity and the insane in post-famine Ireland / Mark Finnane.

Ireland was the location of the earliest comprehensive public provision for the care and control of lunatics. Between 1817 and 1870 the British government in Ireland, through the chief secretary's office in Dublin, directed the establishment of 22 district lunatic asylums throughout the country...

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Main Author: Finnane, Mark (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Totowa, N.J. : Croom Helm ; Barnes & Noble Books, [1981]
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