Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland.
Samantha Jones
Professor Ford
Anthropology 103
30 November 2009
The people of Ballybran parish are located in southwest Kerry, which is in Ireland. All there is in this small rural county town is a school, chapel, cemetery, three pubs, some good shops, the forge, a guest house, two graveyards and three churches that are in ruins. (Scheper-hughes ,19) It is a small rural village and doesn’t have a lot of tutorist attractions. The people of Ballybran are very long, lean, and finally sculptured meaning in shape. (Scheper-hughes, 19) There have very fair skin. Much of what these people eat is from the sea. They also eat packaged good and canned goods from the local shops. These people are farmers they mostly grow potatoes and cabbage. The average farm is between five and twenty acres. (Scheper-hughes, 20) These people are Irish catholic. The population of Ballybarn is about 461. The men and woman in ballybran get married a lot later then the rest. It is about thirty-four for men and twenty- eight for woman. So about one in every three adults is married. The people of Ballybran don’t follow the seven to nine child rule once so prevent in their parish. Most families only have about two or three and are using some form of birth control. The men are mostly shepherds, fisherman, and dairy farmers. (Scheper-hughes, 19) The people in the town sell canned goods, cigarettes, sugar and tea. It is said that the introduction of Christianity by the village saint Brendan the navigator started the period of the parish. Brandon and his band of holy monks spent a summer in ballybran on a mountain, which is now honored in his memory. They now call it mount Brandon. It is said that when Brandon was preying on a moutatin he got a divine commission to sail westward, where he would discover land. In these peoples history it states that while Christopher Columbus was on his voyage across the Atlantic he paid a visit to Galway to read Brandon’s manuscripts. Ireland got its name
Professor Ford
Anthropology 103
30 November 2009
The people of Ballybran parish are located in southwest Kerry, which is in Ireland. All there is in this small rural county town is a school, chapel, cemetery, three pubs, some good shops, the forge, a guest house, two graveyards and three churches that are in ruins. (Scheper-hughes ,19) It is a small rural village and doesn’t have a lot of tutorist attractions. The people of Ballybran are very long, lean, and finally sculptured meaning in shape. (Scheper-hughes, 19) There have very fair skin. Much of what these people eat is from the sea. They also eat packaged good and canned goods from the local shops. These people are farmers they mostly grow potatoes and cabbage. The average farm is between five and twenty acres. (Scheper-hughes, 20) These people are Irish catholic. The population of Ballybarn is about 461. The men and woman in ballybran get married a lot later then the rest. It is about thirty-four for men and twenty- eight for woman. So about one in every three adults is married. The people of Ballybran don’t follow the seven to nine child rule once so prevent in their parish. Most families only have about two or three and are using some form of birth control. The men are mostly shepherds, fisherman, and dairy farmers. (Scheper-hughes, 19) The people in the town sell canned goods, cigarettes, sugar and tea. It is said that the introduction of Christianity by the village saint Brendan the navigator started the period of the parish. Brandon and his band of holy monks spent a summer in ballybran on a mountain, which is now honored in his memory. They now call it mount Brandon. It is said that when Brandon was preying on a moutatin he got a divine commission to sail westward, where he would discover land. In these peoples history it states that while Christopher Columbus was on his voyage across the Atlantic he paid a visit to Galway to read Brandon’s manuscripts. Ireland got its name
Cited: Crawley, Craig. “The Catholic Religion”. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/242627/the_catholic_religion.html?cat=34, 12 May.2007. Web. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland 1979,Uinversity of California Press