Eoin O'Sullivan is Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin|Ian O'Donnell is Professor of Criminology at University College Dublin and Adjunct Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford

Introduction
1. Setting the scene
Part I: Patients, paupers and unmarried mothers
2. How to deal with the unmarried mother - Sagart
3. The unmarried mother: some legal aspects of the problem - Richard Devane
4. A plea for social service - Humbert MacInerny
5. Report Commission on the relief of the sick and destitute poor, including the insane poor
6. Report Inter-departmental committee appointed to examine the question of the reconstruction and replacement of county homes
7. Irish journey - Halliday Sutherland
8. Report commission of inquiry on mental illness
9. No birthright: a study of the Irish unmarried mother and her child - Michael Viney
10. Bird's nest soup - Hanna Greally
11. Mental illness: an inquiry - Michael Viney
Part II: Prisoners
12. The prisons - Edward Fahy
13. I did penal servitude - D83222
14. Prisons and prisoners in Ireland: report on certain aspects of prison conditions in portlaoighise convict prison - The Labour Party
15. The spyhole - Shea Murphy
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
Part III: Troubled and troublesome children
17. Report commission of Inquiry into the Reformatory and Industrial School System
18. Memorandum on children in institutions, boarded out and nurse children - Joint Committee of Women's Societies and Social Workers
19. Founded on fear: letterfrack industrial school, war and exile - Peter Tyrrell
20. Some of our children: a report on the residential care of the deprived child in Ireland - Tuairim
21. The dismal world of Daingean - Michael Viney
22. Report Committee and reformatory and industrial schools systems
23. The road to God knows where - Sean Maher
Index