Stolen destinies: the stories of people ‘incarcerated’ in Ireland’s psychiatric hospitals
Catherine Coffey O’Brien (54) will “never know what lives” her six uncles and mother might have led had they been spared what she describes as “incarceration” in St Finan’s psychiatric hospital in Co Kerry. All of the siblings had been placed in industrial schools in the 1950s after their removal from their Traveller parents. They…