You think this is dignified? A bunch of students playing with someones medical records?Why did 20th century Ireland lock up so many people? After all the scandals about Irelands institutions the industrial schools, the mother and baby homes, the Magdalene laundries why have we still barely investigated the largest institutions of them all the psychiatric hospitals?Today, Grangegorman is home to the newly opened campus of Technological University Dublin. But for nearly 200 years, it housed a forbidding institution behind high walls.The Asylum Workshop is a new documentary play by Colin Murphy about the history of Irelands first public psychiatric hospital. Drawing on unique access to the hospitals archives, it weaves together verbatim testimony from patients and families, reports from doctors and nurses, and analysis from historians and psychiatrists.This edition is published to coincide with the production by Technological University Dublin and Grangegorman Histories in the East Quad Black Box Theatre in June 2023.

Binding: Paperback;96 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: DD; Weight: 234 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 10

Something not quite right? You have 28 days from the day you receive it, to send something back.

Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.

Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Click here to view our full Returns Policy.