This book examines the largely forgotten group of Irish soldiers who suffered from shell shock and other mental troubles as a result of World War I. In 1916, just two months after the Easter Rising, the Richmond War Hospital was established at Grangegor
Professor Brendan Kelly is a professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and a consultant psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital in Dublin. In addition to his medical degree, he has master’s degrees in epidemiology, healthcare management, and Buddhist studies, and doctorates in medicine, history, governance, and law. He has published two previous books with Gill, The Doctor Who Sat for a Year and The Science of Happiness.
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