The year Simon Harris was born, I was in a mental hospital — being young in Old Ireland drove me around the bend

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The year Simon Harris was born, I was in a mental hospital — being young in Old Ireland drove me around the bend

"He would have been seven when they decriminalised gayness, 10 when they closed the last Magdalen laundry, and 11 when they allowed miserable couples to legally split; he would have grown up in a very different, rapidly changing Ireland, an Ireland that was psychologically decolonising at warp speed."