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Asylum: Inside Grangegorman

Brendan Kelly

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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 prisons, laundries, mother and baby homes, industrial schools, orphanages.What was the life of a patient in an asylum really like? Through letters, medical records and doctors' notes, Brendan Kelly gives us a glimpse inside Grangegorman and the lives of those who lived and worked there.Written by Brendan Kelly and illustrated by Fidelma Slattery.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Asylum: Inside Grangegorman. To get started finding Asylum: Inside Grangegorman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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 prisons, laundries, mother and baby homes, industrial schools, orphanages.What was the life of a patient in an asylum really like? Through letters, medical records and doctors' notes, Brendan Kelly gives us a glimpse inside Grangegorman and the lives of those who lived and worked there.Written by Brendan Kelly and illustrated by Fidelma Slattery.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Asylum: Inside Grangegorman. To get started finding Asylum: Inside Grangegorman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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