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Bird's Nest Soup
Hanna Greally
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Description for Bird's Nest Soup
Paperback. The author spent the best part of the 1940s and 1950s incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in the Irish Midlands. 'Mentally well, but unclaimed' - this sums up her horrendous situation. In those days, there was no way out for an unclaimed patient. This title intends to recount the terrible suffering she endured there. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
This title contains new introduction by Dr. Eilis Ward, National University of Ireland Galway. 'Mentally well, but unclaimed' - this sums up the horrendous situation in which Hanna Greally found herself for the best part of twenty years. She saw what she anticipated was a short rest in the Big House, St. Loman's psychiatric hospital in Mullingar stretch and stretch as it became clear to her that none of her relatives surviving after her mother's unexpected death had any intention of applying for her release.In those days, there was no way out for an unclaimed patient. She knew herself to ... Read more
This title contains new introduction by Dr. Eilis Ward, National University of Ireland Galway. 'Mentally well, but unclaimed' - this sums up the horrendous situation in which Hanna Greally found herself for the best part of twenty years. She saw what she anticipated was a short rest in the Big House, St. Loman's psychiatric hospital in Mullingar stretch and stretch as it became clear to her that none of her relatives surviving after her mother's unexpected death had any intention of applying for her release.In those days, there was no way out for an unclaimed patient. She knew herself to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781855942103
SKU
V9781855942103
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About Hanna Greally
Hanna Greally (also known as Johanna or Joan Greally) was born in Athlone in 1925
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