'Irish Insanity 1800-2000' charts and explains the rise and demise of asylums and mental hospitals in Ireland between 1800 and 2000. It definitively demonstrates that Ireland had the highest level of asylum usage internationally, arguing that a combination of social forces, rather than an 'epidemic of Irish insanity', underpinned this pattern of institutionalisation.
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Mentally ill--Care--History--Ireland Mental illness--History--Ireland Mental health facilities--History--Ireland--19th century Mental health facilities--History--Ireland--20th century Mentally ill--Institutional care--History--Ireland--19th century Mentally ill--Institutional care--History--Ireland--20th century Health and Wellbeing. Sociology European history History of medicine Ireland 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Social & cultural history Care of the mentally ill