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The Rotunda Hospital
The Rotunda Hospital
The Rotunda Hospital was established by Dr Bartholomew Mosse (1712-59), a surgeon and midwife born in Maryborough (now Portlaoise). He trained abroad, and returned determined to establish a lying-in and teaching hospital to treat Dublin women, rich and poor. His hospital opened in a small premises on South Great George's Street, which it quickly outgrew, so Mosse began campaigning for a larger premises: running lotteries (for which he was arrested), seeking donations, and holding fund-raising events (his fund benefited from the charity premiere of Handel's Messiah). In 1757 his New Lying-in Hospital, as it was called, opened in fine purpose-built premises, popularly known as the Rotunda, on account of its tower and cupola. Sadly, Mosse died two years later, penniless and exhausted. The new hospital, designed by architect Richard Cassells, had a pleasure garden, theatre and concert hall where the fundraising continued, to enable the hospital to treat poor women for free. The Rotunda had an international reputation for its midwifery training and attracted students from Britain, Europe, Russia and North America.
Image: © Rotunda Hospital
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Discoveries and Inventions
Discoveries and Inventions
Ireland has a rich heritage of invention and discovery, of science and engineering. Mary Mulvihill introduces some of our Irish scientists and tells us of their key discoveries in this article on Science and Technology.
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Sorcha
Sorcha
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Royal Dublin Society
Royal Dublin Society
Photograph 1 of Royal Dublin Society
Library Council
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Indicator Booklet - Edge on showing Book Numbers
Indicator Booklet - Edge on showing Book Numbers
Indicator Booklet - Edge on showing Book Numbers, Red means Book are in the Library
Property of Kilkenny County Library
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John Tyndall FRS (1820-1893)
John Tyndall FRS (1820-1893)
John Tyndall was the first to explain why the sky is blue. He was also one of the first people to adopt the term physicist rather than the term natural philosopher.
Wiki Commons
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Cotgreave Library Indicator in Kilkenny
Cotgreave Library Indicator in Kilkenny
Detail of the surviving Cotgrave Library Indicator in Kilkenny County Library
Kilkenny County Library
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Mary Mulvihill
Mary Mulvihill
Mary Mulvihill is the author of Ingenious Ireland (2002), the award-winning guide to Ireland's scientific and industrial heritage. A science writer and broadcaster, her many series for RTE radio include The Quantum Leap, and Chopped, Pickled and Stuffed (stories from the Natural History Museum). Over the years, she has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, edited Technology Ireland magazine for a decade, and also edited Stars, Shells and Bluebells (1997), a collection of biographies of historic Irish women scientists, pioneers and naturalists.
© Mary Mulvihill
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Science
Science
Science in Ireland image showing Newgrange.
Courtesy of Carlow County Library
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Wm. Hamilton
Wm. Hamilton
Wm Hamilton as a young man
Courtesy of Mrs. Hamilton