The Gender, Migration & Madness Project (www.gendermigrationandmadness.ca) is our focus this week: a multi-year investigation Jane has been leading that explores how the Irish were treated in Canadian colonial lunatic asylums in the mid-nineteenth century.  Did negative stereotypes about the Irish affect the ways in which they were treated once they were institutionalised?  And what led to them being confined in asylums in the first place?