Asylums

“Former Magdalen inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was much worse than depicted in the film”

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“Former Magdalen inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was much worse than depicted in the film”

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Asylums for the insane date all the way back to the Middle Ages but, even before then, societies agonized over what to do with those too mad to function safely in the outside world.

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Given Ireland's conservative sexual values, Magdalen Asylums were a generally accepted social institution until well into the second half of the 20th century.

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From Wikipedia:Magdalene Asylums were institutions for so-called 'fallen women', most of them operated by different orders of the Roman Catholic Church.

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The 1808 County Asylums Act allowed counties to levy a rate to build asylums.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Asylums had originated in France in the seventeenth century, under the influence of Louis XIV, who, during the 1660s, locked up anyone likely to oppose him in a giant police operation described by Foucault as the Great Confinement, when over 6,000 people were incarcerated in the Hpital Gnral.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

This led to the establishment of asylums such as St Lukes in London and Hanwell in Middlesex which were founded under the County Asylums Act, 1808, an early form of social welfare.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Asylums had originated in France in the seventeenth century, under the influence of Louis XIV, who, during the 1660s, locked up anyone likely to oppose him in a giant police operation described by Foucault as the Great Confinement, when over 6,000 people were incarcerated in the Hpital Gnral.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

This led to the establishment of asylums such as St Lukes in London and Hanwell in Middlesex which were founded under the County Asylums Act, 1808, an early form of social welfare.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008