In this lovely, yet completely crazy, Irish summer weather, you may decide to head out and take a stroll around Dublin city. While doing so you will encounter numerous examples of Victorian and Georgian architecture, marble and red brick facades and the modern changes that are happening all over the city. But what you mightn't know is that some of the buildings you look at, pass by every day and may even go in to were once hospitals.
Dublin was, and still, is a major international centre for surgical and medicinal excellence and with this development of surgical methods and practise came hospitals. So below are some examples of these long lost hospitals.
Next time you are enjoying a glass of wine in The Ely Wine Bar on Ely Place here's a fact you can impress your friends with. Next door in 23 Ely Place there was the Dublin Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear from 1872-1875
- Researched and written by Meadhbh Murphy
Dublin was, and still, is a major international centre for surgical and medicinal excellence and with this development of surgical methods and practise came hospitals. So below are some examples of these long lost hospitals.
Next time you are enjoying a glass of wine in The Ely Wine Bar on Ely Place here's a fact you can impress your friends with. Next door in 23 Ely Place there was the Dublin Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear from 1872-1875
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| Dublin Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear, 23 Ely Place |
All those times you were sitting ticket in hand waiting to be called to the counter in the Passport Office, the National Eye and Ear Hospital wasn't that far away at 13 Molesworth Street from 1880-1904.
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| National Eye and Ear Hospital, 13 Molesworth Street |
Dublin sees numerous backpackers coming over to enjoy the 'craic' I wonder when they are tucked up in their hostel beds in Avalon House, Aungier Street, are they dreaming of the anatomy lectures that were taught there when it was the Carmichael Medical School from 1879-1889?
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| Avalon House aka the Carmichael Medical School on Aungier Street |
At least 50% of the worlds population love to shop. So next time your partner is dragging you around Urban Outfitters in Temple Bar and/or the Jervis Street Shopping Centre, let your imagination run wild and think 'what was it like to be a student here when it was a medical school? Or a patient when it was a hospital?'
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| School of Medicine, Catholic University of Ireland, Cecilia St. Temple Bar Where Urban Outfitters is now |
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| Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street. An original door, which can be seen above with the semi circular window above it, can still be seen at the side of Jervis Street Shopping Centre today |
Last but not least, for the centenary year that's in it. When next on Moore Street looking at the houses occupied by the 1916 Easter Rising leaders before they surrendered, have a look for number 20. It was there that the first hospital in Europe or the British Empire was opened and exclusively devoted to the treatment of skin and venereal disease. It was called the Dublin Infirmary for the Investigation and Treatment of Diseases of the Skin and was opened in 1818 by William Wallace.
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| Moore Street, near number 20, where the first hospital in the British Empire dedicated to the treatment of skin and venereal disease was opened in 1818 |
- Researched and written by Meadhbh Murphy