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Sun 25 Jul 2021, 2:51 AM 1066a. Former site of St Patrick s Hospital on Wellington Road, present day. (picture: Kieran McCarthy)
The 150th anniversary of Marymount Published: Last updated:
Sun 25 Jul 2021, 2:51 AM
Mid-September 1920 coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of St Patrick’s Hospital on Wellington Road.
The anniversary was referenced in Cork newspapers. This year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the hospital’s foundation but in recent years has been relocated to Curraheen and has morphed into the Marymount University Hospital and Hospice.
The original hospital from 1870 was the brainchild of the Sisters of Charity. They had won the admiration of Cork general practitioner Dr Patrick Murphy from an early stage. The Sisters had visited his father and sister on their deathbeds during the cholera epidemic of 1832. Dr Murphy had owned a tan-yard and some house prope