Kev Collins
From the roots of our natural world to the challenges of modern society, this is a show about Ireland’s past, present, and future.
Kev Collins
Inside The Asylum
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In 1956, Ireland had the highest rate of psychiatric hospitalisation in the world.
Not because Ireland suffered some unique epidemic of insanity, but because institutions had become deeply embedded within the social fabric of the State itself.
INSIDE THE ASYLUM explores the rise of Ireland’s vast asylum system through the story of places like the Cork District Lunatic Asylum, once one of the largest psychiatric institutions in Europe.
The documentary examines the intersection of mental health, poverty, shame, religion, trauma and social control in post-independence Ireland, asking what the long-term psychological consequences of institutionalisation may still be today
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