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Preceding the more famous Limerick Soviet by two months, the first Irish soviet was declared on 29 January 1919. Led by Donegal union organiser and IRA Commander Peadar O'Donnell, the soviet was declared as part of a strike for better working conditions for the staff of the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum (as it was then known). Amongst the worker's complaints were that they were being forced to work ...

The lunatic asylum, ... Psychiatric Hospital of Prison Type of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs was a psychiatric institution used by the Soviet authorities to suppress dissent. ... political abuse of psychiatry was reported to be systematic in the Soviet Union, and to surface on occasion in other Eastern European countries such as ...

Monaghan Lunatic Asylum Soviet. The mental health services present today at St. Davnet’s were a separate facility in 1919, known as the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum. The workers of the asylum were unionised by the recently founded Irish Asylum Workers’ Union (IAWU) and worked an average of 82.5 hours a week.

At a time when it is tempting to use the analogy of 'lunatics running the asylum' or should that be 'Sociopaths running Society', I drew inspiration and joy from this powerful tale of solidarity. On 24 January 1919, staff and patients barricaded themselves inside the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum in Ireland and declared a soviet (workers'…

In turn, the Soviet Union’s anti-British, anti-colonialist and anti-war stance energised the Irish independence movement; in 1917 some 10,000 people celebrated the Bolshevik coup at Dublin’s Mansion House. ... The Monaghan asylum’s patients were some of the most severely ill in Ireland. During the First World War, living costs rose ...

The Monaghan Soviet Peadar O’Donnell was an active militant in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union of Jim Larkin and James Connolly. He had tried to set up a unit of the ICA in Derry in 1919. ... When workers at the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum went on strike in February 1919 O’Donnell and the strikers occupied the building, and ran up ...

The commitment of radicals to lunatic asylums in the Soviet Union has become an international scandal. One aspect of it has attracted too little notice here. It is the misuse by Soviet apologists ...

A year later, workers in the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum (as it was then known) flew the red flag over their workplace and declared a soviet, as part of a struggle for better conditions, wages and a shorter working week, in what was the first of the Irish Soviets.

It began when staff at the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum (as it was known), led by the Donegal union organiser Peadar O’Donnell, went on strike for better pay and conditions.

The first and most successful soviet was organised in the unlikely location of Monaghan Lunatic Asylum, as it was then called, in 1919. As a trade union organiser, Peadar O’Donnell led the strikers and took over as director of the hospital, where staff had been working ninety-three hours a week and were obliged to stay in the hospital between ...

Series of contemporary newspaper headlines regarding the occupation of Monaghan Asylum. On Jan. 24, 1919, the red flag was raised over the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum, the first Soviet of the wider Irish Revolution, and one of the first Soviets declared outside of Russia. Much less well known than the Limerick Soviet, which is often referred to…

Among the brave band of Russians who campaign openly for greater civil liberties in the Soviet Union, there is no more vivid personality than former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko. The 62-year-old ...

Human-rights activist Alexander Podrabinek, who wrote a book about the Soviet Union's use of psychiatric punishment against dissidents, responded to the ruling by saying: "This is a clear case of a return to punitive psychiatry (against dissidents) in Russia. This is the first such clear and obvious instance in the post-Soviet period."

The issue became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to the systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, where approximately one-third of the political prisoners were locked up in psychiatric hospitals. The issue caused a major rift within the World Psychiatric Association, from which the Soviets were forced to withdraw in ...

05 December 2021 | Elsewhere directed by Michael Gallen is a new opera currently showing in Ireland about how, in 1919, the staff of the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum barricaded the gates, raised the Red Flag and declared themselves an independent soviet commune.

The York Lunatic Asylum evaded inspection until 1813 (public asylums were inadequately inspected, if at all, and private ‘madhouses’ were outside the purview of the law), when Godfrey Higgins, a landed gentleman with a social conscience, joined forces with the Tuke family to investigate the persistent rumours of ill-treatment of patients.

The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern ps...

SOVIET UNION . One of the most chilling tactics used by Soviet authorities to suppress dissent is enforced confinement in a mental hospital. Selected rebel intellectuals are declared insane by ...

After He Zizhen divorced Chairman Mao, she left for the Soviet Union. During her stay in the Soviet Union, she was forcibly imprisoned in a lunatic asylum and suffered unreasonable suppression and persecution, which caused severe physical and mental damage to her...

In 1851, the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum emerged as the region’s first mental health institution, embodying a "moral treatment" approach to mental health care. Moral treatment challenged negative views of mental illness as unrepairable and evil and instead encouraged compassionate approaches that transformed treatment. Throughout the late nineteenth century, the hospital’s design and ...