The Patients All Seemed Happy by Lianne O'Hara Arachne Press It’s 2022 – and in

It’s 2022 – and in the intensity of their dark light

His poems are moving

a place where ordinary things are transfigured into treasures - a red ribbon

yet ambitiously experimental among the forms she uses

and those imposed by photographs

The Patients All Seemed Happy by Lianne O'Hara Arachne Press It’s 2022 – and inGrangegorman Dublin's oldest psychiatric institution operated from 1814 to 2013, becoming a centerpiece of Ireland's troubling legacy of mass institutionalisation. By the 1970s, the country housed more people in mental hospitals per capita than anywhere else in the world. Beyond those with mental illness, Grangegorman became home to society's unwanted: people with intellectual disabilities, alcohol problems, and those who simply found no way to fit