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Shell shock

Shell shock

Posted on October 13, 2017October 24, 2017 by Patricia O Sullivan

Richmond District Lunatic Asylum in Dublin housed the first Irish war hospital for soldiers suffering from shell shock during WWI. Shell shock is a…

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Lunatics Wandering At Large

Lunatics Wandering At Large

Posted on September 9, 2017September 21, 2017 by Patricia O Sullivan

In the nineteenth century, Ireland was a country of poverty and food insecurity and respite from the daily struggles of life and the…

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