- Start Date - 30/11/2016
- End Date - 30/11/2016
- Start Time - 18.15
- End Time -
- Location - Geoffrey Bourke Room, First Floor, Setanta House, Setanta Place, Dublin 2.
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Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI) History of Medicine Section Lecture
Hearing Voices, Telling Stories: Writing the History of Psychiatry in Ireland
By Professor Brendan Kelly, Trinity College Dublin
About the talk: Writing history is a complicated matter. This talk focuses on the research for, and writing of, ‘Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland.’ The book and talk encompass psychiatric developments from the Middle Ages to the present day, and examine the far-reaching social and political effects of Ireland’s troubled relationship with mental illness. From the ‘Glen of Lunatics’, said to cure the mentally ill, to the overcrowded asylums of later centuries – with more beds for the mentally ill than any other country in the world – Ireland has a complex, unsettled and utterly fascinating history in the practice of psychiatry.
Irish Academic Press
(www.iap.ie)
Plan of St Ita’s, Portrane: Building News and Engineering Journal,
27 April 1900 (courtesy of the Irish Architectural Archive)
All Welcome, particularly students