Introduction 1. Setting the Scene Ian O'Donnell and Eoin O¿Sullivan Part I. Patients, Paupers and Unmarried Mothers 2. How to Deal with the Unmarried Mother ¿Sagart¿, 1922. 3. The Unmarried Mother: Some Legal Aspects of the Problem Richard Devane, 1924. 4. A Plea for Social Service Humbert MacInerny, 1925. 5. Report Commission on the Relief of the Sick and Destitute Poor, Including the Insane Poor, 1927. 6. Report Inter-Departmental Committee Appointed to Examine the Question of the Reconstruction and Replacement of County Homes, 1949. 7. Irish Journey Halliday Sutherland, 1956. 8. Report Commission of Inquiry on Mental Illness, 1966. 9. No Birthright: A Study of the Irish Unmarried Mother and Her Child Michael Viney, 1966. 10. Bird¿s Nest Soup Hanna Greally, 1971. 11. Mental Illness: An Inquiry Michael Viney, 1971. Further Reading Part II. Prisoners 12. The Prisons Edward Fahy, 1940. 13. I Did Penal Servitude D83222, 1945. 14. Prisons and Prisoners in Ireland: Report on Certain Aspects of Prison Conditions in Portlaoighise Convict Prison The Labour Party, 1946. 15. The Spyhole Shea Murphy, 1947. 16. Dungeons Deep: A Monograph on Prisons, Borstals, Reformatories and Industrial Schools in the Republic of Ireland, and Some Reflections on Crime and Punishment and Matters Relating Thereto Peadar Cowan, 1960. Further Reading Part III. Troubled and Troublesome Children 17. Report Commission of Inquiry into the Reformatory and Industrial School System, 1936. 18. Memorandum on Children in Institutions, Boarded out and Nurse Children Joint Committee of Women¿s Societies and Social Workers, 1943. 19. Founded on Fear: Letterfrack Industrial School, War and Exile Peter Tyrrell, 1959. 20. Some of our Children: A Report on the Residential Care of the Deprived Child in Ireland Tuairim, 1966. 21. The Dismal World of Daingean Michael Viney, 1966. 22. Report Committee and Reformatory and Industrial Schools Systems 23. The Road to God Knows Where Sean Maher, 1972. Further Reading