Grangegorman Histories

‘From vice to virtue, from idleness to industry, from profaneness to practical religion’ Grangegorman penitentiary

Joan Kavanagh, author and historian, has documented the experiences of women and girls transported from Ireland to the Australian colonies during the 19th Century. Here,…

Sport and the Richmond Lunatic Asylum

Paul Rouse is a professor in the School of History at University College Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of Irish sport and…

Grangegorman and the treatment of soldiers’ trauma

Author Eamon Delaney leads the ‘The Lion and the Shamrock’ project which shares some of the legacy of military history of the north Dublin area,…

Explore Grangegorman before the institutions

Raymond Gillespie, MRIA is Professor of History at Maynooth University. His main research interest is social change in early modern Ireland. In this article, Professor…

Grangegorman Lives: James Celestine Carr

Our Grangegorman Lives series continues with James Celestine Carr, a prominent radiologist.

Grangegorman Lives: Sir William Stokes

The next addition to our Grangegorman Lives series is Sir William Stokes, a surgeon born to the pioneering cardiologist William Stokes.

Grangegorman Lives: Fleetwood Churchill

Our Grangegorman Lives series continues with Fleetwood Churchill (1808 – 1878), the Nottingham-born obstetrician and medical writer.

Grangegorman Lives: Patrick O’Daly

On this day (1 February) in 1922, O’Daly orchestrated the handover of the Beggars Bush barracks from British troops.