Asylum
Inside Grangegorman
Published on 4. October 2023
208 pages
978-1-911479-31-4 (ISBN)
Description
In 1814, the Richmond Lunatic Asylum at Grangegorman in Dublin
started an extraordinary programme of asylum building across Ireland,
aimed at alleviating the suffering of people with mental illness who were
homeless, in prison, or confined in appalling circumstances.
By the mid-twentieth century, Ireland had proportionately more people in
'mental hospitals' than any other country in the world. On a given night,
the number of people in Ireland's psychiatric hospitals was more than
double those in all our other institutions put together: prisons, laundries,
mother and baby homes, industrial schools, orphanages.
What was the life of a patient in an asylum really like?
started an extraordinary programme of asylum building across Ireland,
aimed at alleviating the suffering of people with mental illness who were
homeless, in prison, or confined in appalling circumstances.
By the mid-twentieth century, Ireland had proportionately more people in
'mental hospitals' than any other country in the world. On a given night,
the number of people in Ireland's psychiatric hospitals was more than
double those in all our other institutions put together: prisons, laundries,
mother and baby homes, industrial schools, orphanages.
What was the life of a patient in an asylum really like?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
2,21 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911479-31-4 (9781911479314)
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Brendan Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, and UCD Visiting Full Clinical Professor at UCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin.
