This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it exp

“Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”�

The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth centu

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twe

This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it exp