The Patients All Seemed Happy by Lianne O'Hara Autumn Journal Ranging from reflections on the

Ranging from reflections on the place of music in Caribbean and Black British culture as a creative

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chosen to lift the spirits through the healing power of words

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The Patients All Seemed Happy by Lianne O'Hara Autumn Journal Ranging from reflections on theGrangegorman Dublin's oldest psychiatric institution operated from 1814 to 2013, becoming a centerpiece of Ireland's troubling legacy of mass institutionalisation. By the 1970s, the country housed more people in mental hospitals per capita than anywhere else in the world. Beyond those with mental illness, Grangegorman became home to society's unwanted: people with intellectual disabilities, alcohol problems, and those who simply found no way to fit