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Niamh NicGhabhann
2015 April
World Within Walls: From Asylum to Contemporary Mental Health Services
"….All the most approved modern arrangements': Building for mental health care at Monaghan, 1886-1950s"
Stair: An Irish Public History Company Ltd.
Wicklow
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mental health architecture Irish social history Irish studies architectural history institutional history medical history psychiatric history
This essay considers the building of St. Davnet's Hospital in Monaghan town, which was opened in 1869 as the Cavan and Monaghan District Lunatic Asylum. Based on extensive primary research from the records on site, this essay explores the history of this building within the context of institutional architecture in Ireland, across the British Empire, and the fate of the asylums within the Irish Free State.
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This is one output of a larger HSE-funded public history project