RCSI Heritage Collections

Tonight is the Littlewoods Ireland Blog Awards  and excitement levels are reaching fever pitch in the Heritage Collections!  Woo hooo! Let's get this party started! The awards ceremony will be at Duffy's Circus in Dun Laoghaire so to get in the mood, we decided we would have a look at some glass lantern slides taken of animals in Dublin Zoo in the 1890s and early 1900s. These slides are part of the J Alfred Scott Collection and give a great insight into one of Dublin's favourite visitor attractions, Dublin Zoo . Up until recently exotic animals were part and parcel of the circus. Thankfully the times they are a changing and animals are no longer being made perform in circuses. Instead they are getting to live the rest of their lives out in a happy carefree environment. Not having anything related to circuses in the collections but having established a now tenuous link between circuses and animals the (il)logical conclusion is to look at animals from Dublin Zoo wh...

That's us! Littlewoods Ireland Blog Awards announced the finalists of the Arts & Culture Corporate category  on Wednesday 31st August. Low and behold we made the cut! You did not I hear you cry.  We certainly did we reply! Thursday 15th September will see a gathering of blog creators, blog writers, blog enthusiasts and blog fashionistas at Duffy's Circus in Dun Laoghaire . We can feel it in our waters that a fun night will be had by all and being from a College of Surgeons, that's a medical fact!! (Disclaimer: we may work in a College of Surgeons but we are in no way  medically trained  so that is most definitely not a fact. But it could be a premonition....) Now it's time to to get the gúna out, the hair appointment booked and the arm candy ready! Our dream Littlewoods Ireland Blog Awards ensemble! - Researched and written by Meadhbh Murphy