{"product_id":"the-asylum-workshop-paperback","title":"The Asylum Workshop - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColin Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou think this is dignified? A bunch of students playing with someone's medical records?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy did 20th century Ireland lock up so many people? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter all the scandals about Ireland's institutions - the industrial schools, the mother and baby homes, the Magdalene laundries - why have we still barely investigated the largest institutions of them all: the psychiatric hospitals? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, Grangegorman is home to the newly opened campus of Technological University Dublin. But for nearly 200 years, it housed a forbidding institution behind high walls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Asylum Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e is a new documentary play by Colin Murphy about the history of Ireland's first public psychiatric hospital. Drawing on unique access to the hospital's archives, it weaves together verbatim testimony from patients and families, reports from doctors and nurses, and analysis from historians and psychiatrists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition is published to coincide with the production by Technological University Dublin and Grangegorman Histories in the East Quad Black Box Theatre in June 2023.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e writes plays about politics, and journalism. He is the author of a series of plays on Irish political history: \u003ci\u003eHaughey\/Gregory\u003c\/i\u003e, on the 1982 \"Gregory Deal\", \u003ci\u003eInside the GPO, \u003c\/i\u003e on the Easter Rising\u003ci\u003e, Guaranteed!, \u003c\/i\u003e on the bank guarantee of 2008, \u003ci\u003eand Bailed Out!\u003c\/i\u003e, on the subsequent crisis and Troika \"bailout\" of 2010, all produced by Fishamble. He adapted the latter two for screen, as \u003ci\u003eThe Guarantee\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bailout\u003c\/i\u003e (both produced by John Kelleher Media). He adapted the Charlie Bird book \u003ci\u003eA Day in May\u003c\/i\u003e for the stage. His verbatim dramas\u003ci\u003e, Jack Duggan's War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJudging Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e (based on Fintan O'Toole's book of the same name) have been staged by ANU Productions. His short film \u003ci\u003eLeave to Remain\u003c\/i\u003e was made for RTﾉ Storyland (produced by Treasure Entertainment). He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Business Post.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706296668223,"sku":"9781350429734","price":25.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/25f6b694f46a7f1031ea97bd9269d804.webp?v=1765039913","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-asylum-workshop-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}