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Paul Rouse: Grangegorman and the value of sport

Paul Rouse examines the role of sport, exercise, and recreation as part of treatment for patients in asylums.

Paul Rouse: Grangegorman and the value of sport — The Grangegorman soccer team, 1909–10. Picture: National Archives of Ireland, Priv1223/29/96. Courtesy of the HSE.

Fri, 24 Mar, 2023 - 07:22

There is a wonderful Paul Durcan poem called ‘Sport’. It is almost unbearably poignant:

On my twenty-first birthday

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