This discussion explores the immense building work behind Ireland’s psychiatric hospitals, the state’s capacity to deliver them, their original function, and their afterlives – from abandonment to redevelopment.

• David Killeen, artist
• Patrick Quinlan, author
• Dervla McManus, Research Fellow, University College Dublin
• GKMP Architects, currently redeveloping St. Senan’s Hospital, Enniscorthy

Copies of Walls of Containment are available at www.ucdpress.ie

On Friday, 16 January at 7.30pm, artist David Killeen with be joined by UCD Press author Patrick Quinlan (Walls of Containment, UCD Press, 2021) and Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at UCD, Dervla McManus for a panel discussion.

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A pleasure spending the day with you Roisin. Good luck in your next chapter 📕🙌