The Asylum Workshop
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The Asylum Workshop

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Asylum Workshop

About this book

You think this is dignified? A bunch of students playing with someone's medical records? Why did 20th century Ireland lock up so many people? After 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? 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 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. 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.

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781350429734
eBook ISBN
9781350429741
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
British Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Cast
  5. Playwright’s Note
  6. Director’s Note
  7. Note from Technological University Dublin
  8. Note from Grangegorman Histories
  9. A Select Bibliography for The Asylum Workshop
  10. About Grangegorman Histories
  11. The Asylum Workshop
  12. Notes
  13. Prologue
  14. The Beginning
  15. Dublin Castle – Early 1800s
  16. Meeting With a Historian
  17. Dublin Castle
  18. Encountering the Archive
  19. ‘Our Cherub’
  20. Claire Keeley’s Story: Richmond Lunatic Asylum – 1908
  21. ‘Locked Up All Day Long’
  22. Another Meeting With a Historian
  23. ‘Degeneracy in the Stock’
  24. ‘Over-Religious’
  25. Meeting Mick
  26. Claire Keeley’s Story – 1908–1914
  27. ‘Home’
  28. Claire Keeley’s Story – 1916
  29. ‘Gone Foreign’
  30. The Board of Governors – 1818–1938
  31. ‘Just an Ordinary Sickness’
  32. First Interaction
  33. Second Interaction
  34. Third Interaction
  35. Fourth Interaction
  36. Fifth Interaction
  37. Meeting With a Psychiatrist
  38. ‘This Wild Wife of Mine’
  39. Claire Keeley’s Story – 1930s
  40. ‘Laughing in Chapel’
  41. Claire Keeley’s Story – 1942
  42. Final Meeting With a Historian
  43. The End
  44. Epilogue
  45. Afterword
  46. eCopyright