The forgotten history of Ireland's asylums (From January 2022)

<p>This episode was originally published in January 2021. </p><br><p>More than two dozen “lunatic asylums” were built throughout Ireland in the 1800s. Today some are hospitals, while others are derelict.</p><br><p>Through interviews and archive research, Rosita Boland pieces together what life was like inside the walls of these state-run institutions.</p><br><p>She discovers that for many of the thousands of Irish citizens who passed through them, mental illness was not the only reason, or even a reason at all.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>