Asylums, Mental Health Care and the Irish, 1800-2010
Pauline Prior
- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Irish Academic Press (Jun 30 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0716531526
- ISBN-13: 978-0716531524
This book is a collection of studies on mental health services in
Ireland, from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. In
addition to an analysis of overall trends in patient numbers and an
exploration of the development of mental health law on the island of
Ireland (North and South), there are studies on individual hospitals.
These include:
the famous nursing strike at Monaghan Asylum in 1919,
when a red flag was raised over the building *
extracts from Speedwell, a
hospital newsletter, showing the social and sporting life at Holywell
Hospital during the 1960s *
an exploration of diseases, such as beriberi
and tuberculosis at Dundrum and Richmond in the 1890s *
the legal
action taken by the Belfast Asylum against the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland in the 1860s to avoid appointing chaplains *
the problems
encountered by doctors in Ballinasloe Asylum as they tried to exert
their authority over the Governors *
the experiences of Irish emigrants
who found themselves in asylums in Australia and New Zealand. T
he book
also includes a discussion of mental health services in Ireland from
1959 to 2010, the first time such a chronology has been published.
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