'He lost himself completely' : shell shock and its treatment at Dublin's Richmond War Hospital, 1916-19 / Brendan Kelly.
Publisher: Dublin : The Liffey Press Ltd, [2014]Description: xx, 152 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781908308634
- 23 940.476
- RC 550 KEL
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| Loanable Book | Library | Irish Collection | 940.476 KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000436651 |
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| 940.4514 SIM The Lusitania / | 940.455 MOL Lusitania : | 940.475 CAS Irish Doctors in the First World War / | 940.476 KEL 'He lost himself completely' : | 940.48 What I really wrote about the war. | 940.481 DUN Irish voices from the great war / | 940.48141956 WHI A great sacrifice : Cork servicemen who died in the Great War / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over 200,000 Irish soldiers fought in the First World War, and an estimated 40,000 died in it. Many more were deeply scarred by their experiences, with physical and psychological injuries that impaired their ability to return to military service or participate in civilian life. This book examines the largely forgotten group of Irish soldiers who suffered from shell shock and other mental troubles as a result of the war.
In 1916, just two months after the Easter Rising, the Richmond War Hospital was established at Grangegorman in Dublin, on the grounds of the Richmond Asylum, to treat these soldiers. Stammering, mute and paralysed, depressed and haunted by voices and explosions in their minds, 362 soldiers were treated at the War Hospital between 1916 and 1919. This book tells their stories ... Book cover.
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