Michael Kinsella, PhD candidate at Ulster University, discusses his doctoral research into Irish residents in the north of Ireland migrating to Scotland for treatment and care in Scottish asylums during the 19th Century.

Excessive Tea Drinking and  Insanity in Late-Victorian Belfast

Epidemic Belfast raises difficult and challenging questions about Northern Ireland's medical history, from the 19th century to COVID.  In each episode, experts examine themes including the health of Belfast's mill workers, asylums, Victorian anti-vaxxers, 'cures' and shock therapies for homosexuality, the thalidomide tragedy, lobotomies, prison doctors during the Troubles and the AIDS crisis.