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Niall Breslin: All that Remains takes him back to his native Mullingar where the unmarked graves of 1,300 people are located in the grounds of St Loman’s, a former psychiatric hospital

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All That Remains with Niall Breslin

Wednesday, RTÉ One, 9.35pm

The musician, presenter and mental health advocate revisits his native Mullingar to uncover a dark chapter in Ireland’s history of dealing with mental health issues. Near where he grew up in the midlands town stands St Loman’s, a former psychiatric hospital which has been closed since 2013. But when it was founded in 1855, it was known as St Loman’s Lunatic Asylum, and on the grounds of St Loman’s are the unmarked graves of 1,300 people who were committed there, died and were buried and quietly forgotten. Only a numbered metal cross was placed on their graves, a sign of the historic stigma attached to mental illness.

But not all have been forgotten, and some of their descendants have started an online campaign to reinstate the names in the graveyard, and to have a memorial wall built for them.

Breslin hears stories from families of the forgotten, uncovers the burial practices of these institutions, and finds out about other similar burial sites in former “mental hospitals” around the country. It seems that mother and baby homes weren’t the only places where Ireland buried its shameful past.

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