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The Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum—Small can be Interesting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Charles Smith
Charles Smith*
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Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum, Dublin
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The Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum opened its doors for business in 1850. We cannot be sure why our English masters at the time considered it more urgent to open a security hospital in Ireland before planning and constructing Broadmoor. Were the Irish, as a race, sick and dangerous, or does an old institution like Dundrum reflect the views of the colonists on the colonised!

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 11 , November 1987 , pp. 375 - 376
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