Theories of Irish insanity -- Irish asylum utilisation, 1800-2000 -- The Irish insanity "epidemic," 1800-1956 -- The demise of Irish insanity, 1956-2000 -- Conclusion
Summary
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 century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and provided a convenient form of institutional intervention to manage a host of social problems.Irish Insanity identifies the long-term trends in institutional residency through the development of a detailed empirical data set, based on an analysis of original copies of the reports of Inspector of Asylums
