{"product_id":"9781350429734-asylum-workshop","title":"The Asylum Workshop","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou think this is dignified? A bunch of students playing with someone’s medical records?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy did 20th century Ireland lock up so many people? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter all the scandals about Ireland’s 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Asylum Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e is a new documentary play by Colin Murphy about the history of Ireland’s first public psychiatric hospital. Drawing on unique access to the hospital’s archives, it weaves together verbatim testimony from patients and families, reports from doctors and nurses, and analysis from historians and psychiatrists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40856310480993,"sku":"9781350429734","price":12.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35269365_1c17bdae-8821-4b0e-a40d-43304f21b882.jpg?v=1752199615","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350429734-asylum-workshop","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}