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On January 18th, 1984, an 86-year-old patient at the Port Ramas Island in North County Dublin

passed away. Edward Murray had spent nearly half his life effectively incarcerated

in mental institutions after he developed a mental illness decades earlier.

Suffering from delusions and hallucinations, he had attacked a friend in the early 1940s,

but after he was committed to Grange Gorman Asylum in 1944, his condition deteriorated.

Diagnosed with paraphrania, he was deemed incapable of looking after himself.

In 1940s Ireland, this was effectively a prison sentence and Edward would spend the rest of his

long life in the Asylum system. In 1955, he was moved to Port Ram and there he lingered

decade after decade, more or less forgotten by the wider world.

When he died in his mid 80s, a few weeks short of the 40th anniversary since he had first entered

the Asylum system, few, if any, realized or cared about the role he had played in the Irish

War of Independence. Indeed, he was probably one of the thousands buried in unmarked graves

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