![]() ![]() Another aspect of this was that the grounds of the Richmond asylum became a place to play. ![]() These teams were chosen from among the patients and from the growing numbers of people who worked in the institution indeed-as was the case with such institutions across the United Kingdom-the sporting opportunities available were one of the attractions of working there. The essay will also assess the manner in which the asylum developed sporting teams that competed in all manner of local and national competitions. It will explore, also, how sport was used in an attempt to present a very particular image of the asylum to the wider world: the Richmond Lunatic Asylum as progressive and compassionate, as an institution where patients were cared for and where they were rehabilitated, or at least treated with dignity. This essay will examine the nature and extent of that change. In the decades immediately after the asylum opened in 1814 sport was not part of the treatment of patients, but, as the nineteenth century progressed, this changed. The history of sport in the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, and its successor the Grangegorman Mental Hospital, in the north inner-city of Dublin, was multi-layered. Irish Texts Society Other Publications Series.Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature.Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.
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