Asylums, mental health care and the Irish, 1800-2010 / 
edited by Pauline Prior. 
 - Dublin :  Irish Academic Press,  2012. 
 - 304 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1.Introduction. Pauline M. Prior -- Part one: Twentieth century -- 2.The red flag over the aslyum: the Monaghan Asylum Soviet of 1919. Anton McCabe and Ciaran Mulholland -- 3.Speedwell Magazine: an insider view of Holywell Psychiatric Hospital, Antrim, 1959-1973. Gillian McClelland -- 4.Mental health services in Ireland, 1959-2010.Dermot Walsh -- 5.Voices of mental health service users - poetry and prose -- Part two.Nineteenth century -- 6.Irish immigrants in a colonial asylum during the Australian Gold Rushes, 1848-1869. Elizabeth Malcolm -- 7.Transnational ties to home: Irish migratns in New Zealand Asylums, 1860-1926. Angela McCarthy -- 8.The \'Chaplaincy Question\' at Belfast District Asylum, 1834-1870. Pauline M. Prior & David V. Griffiths -- 9.A mystery malady in an Irish asylum: The Richmond epidemic of the late nineteenth century asylum: clinical cases from the central criminal lunatic asylum, Dundrum, Dublin. Brendan D. Kelly -- 11.Overseeing the Irish asylums: the inspectorate in lunacy, 1845-1921. Pauline M. Prior -- 12.A perfectly ordered establishment: Connaught Distric Lunatic Aslyum (Ballinasloe). Oonagh Walsh -- 13.Voices of doctors and officials -- Part three. Exploring trends: 14.A theoretical exploration of institution-based mental  health care in Ireland. Damien Brennan -- 15.Mental health law on the Island of Ireland, 1800-2010. Pauline M. Prior. 
<br/><br/> This is a collection of essays from well known scholars on mental health services in Ireland. The topics featured include nurses striking, rare diseases, patient poetry, religious controversy, hospital inspections, and the pain of the emigrant. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780716531524 (hbk.) :  £40.00 9780716531524 (hbk.) 0716531526 (hbk.) 9781911024620 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Geschichte 1800-2010. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mentally ill--Care--Ireland<br/>Mental health services / Ireland / History / 20th century.<br/>Mental health services / Ireland / History / 19th century.<br/>Irish / Mental health services / Foreign countries / History.<br/>Mental health services--History--Ireland--19th century<br/>Mental health services--History--Ireland--20th century<br/>Mentally ill--Care--Ireland<br/>Irish--Mental health services--History--Foreign countries<br/>Health and Wellbeing.<br/>History of medicine<br/>Mental health services<br/>Ireland
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA790.7.I73 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>150.9 PRI