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Phone
  
+353 1 873 5959

Province
  
Leinster

Jervis Street Hospital

Address
  
1 Jervis St, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland

Hours
  
Closed today SaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday8:30AM–7PMTuesday8:30AM–7PMWednesday8:30AM–7PMThursday8:30AM–7PMFriday(Saint Patrick's Day)8:30AM–7PMHours might differ

Similar
  
Jervis Shopping Centre, Mercer's Hospital, Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dr Steevens' Hospital, Meath Hospital

Jervis Street Hospital was a former hospital in Dublin, Ireland, that became part of Beaumont Hospital, which was completed in 1987. The site of the hospital became the Jervis Shopping Centre.

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History

The hospital was founded by six Dublin surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook St., Dublin, in 1718, at their own expense. They were: George Duany, Patrick Kelly, Nathaniel Handson, John Dowdall, Francis Donany and Peter Brenan. Ten years later they moved to a larger premises on King's Inn's Quay.

In 1786, when the new Four Courts were about to be erected on the quays, a bargain was made with the Earl of Charlemont to move into his former mansion at 14 Jervis Street, and the Infirmary moved there in October 1796. Some time afterwards alterations were made in the house to suit it for hospital purposes. The hospital occupied a central place in the most populous part of the city, also being close to the markets, railway termini, goods stores and the shipping.

In 1854 the nursing and internal management were placed under the control of the Sisters of Mercy. The hospital was rebuilt and enlarged in 1877.

The hospital staged Araby, an oriental fête, in 1894, to raise much-needed funds. The name, Araby, would live as the title of one of James Joyce’s short stories in Dubliners.

Notable physicians

  • Robert Adams (1791-1875) was elected surgeon in the 1820s.
  • Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880): after his return to Dublin from Edinburgh, where he qualified as an MD, he was appointed physician to the hospital, which had only six medical beds at the time. He was later elected Liberal MP for Dublin and was five times president of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.
  • Stephen Myles MacSwiney, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians and member of the Royal Irish Academy. His first professional appointment was Resident Medical Officer at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. He was afterwards physician to Jervis Street Hospital. He filled with marked ability a chair of Medical jurisprudence, and contributed papers to the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, the Irish Hospital Gazette, and the Medical Press and Circular. He died in 1890.
  • John King Forest was Surgeon to the hospital and also to the Theatre Royal, Dublin, who died on 17 April 1882, aged 78 years.
  • Sir William Thompson (1861 - 1926) was a physician in the hospital in the early part of the 20th century. He later became Registrar General for Ireland from 1909 to 1926.

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    Jervis Street Hospital Wikipedia
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