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St. Brendan's Hospital, Dublin

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St. Brendan's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Breandán) was a psychiatric facility located in the north Dublin suburb of Grangegorman. It formed part of the mental health services of Dublin North East with its catchment area being North West Dublin.[1] It is now the site of a modern mental health facility known as the "Phoenix Care Centre". Since the official opening of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in 1815 the Grangegorman site has continuously provided institutional facilities for the reception of the mentally ill until the present day.[2] As such the Phoenix Care Centre represents the continuation of the oldest public psychiatric facility in Ireland.[3]

St. Brendan's Hospital
Health Service Executive
Entrance to St. Brendan's Hospital
St. Brendan's Hospital, Dublin is located in Central Dublin
St. Brendan's Hospital, Dublin
Shown in Dublin
Geography
LocationGrangegorman, North Dublin, Ireland
Coordinates53°21′26″N 6°17′07″W / 53.3571°N 6.2852°W / 53.3571; -6.2852
Organisation
Care systemHSE
TypeSpecialist
Services
Beds54
SpecialityPsychiatric hospital
History
Opened1815

History

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Richmond Lunatic Asylum Act 1830
Act of Parliament
 
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for appropriating the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin to the Purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum.
Citation11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 22
Dates
Royal assent29 May 1830
Commencement29 May 1830
Repealed5 August 1873
Other legislation
Amended byRichmond Lunatic Asylum Act 1831
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1873
Status: Repealed
Richmond Lunatic Asylum Act 1831
Act of Parliament
 
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to amend an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for appropriating the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin to the Purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum."
Citation1 Will. 4. c. 13
Dates
Royal assent11 March 1831
Other legislation
AmendsRichmond Lunatic Asylum Act 1830
Amended byStatute Law Revision Act 1873

In 1810, the governors of the Dublin House of Industry, together with the physician Andrew Jackson, succeeded in gaining a grant from the government to establish a separate asylum from the House of Industry.[4] It was built on a site adjacent to the House of Industry and officially opened as the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in 1815, although it had received its first patients from the lunatic wards of the House of Industry in the previous year. It was named after Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Initially, it was established as a national asylum to receive curable lunatics from throughout the island of Ireland. The facility joined the state system as a "district asylum", as defined in the Lunacy (Ireland) Act 1821, in 1830,[5] following the passing of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 22). Thereafter it was renamed the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum and its catchment area was defined as the city and county of Dublin, the counties of Wicklow, Louth, Meath, and the town of Drogheda.[6]

In the latter years of the First World War, a facility known as the Richmond War Hospital was established in the grounds of the hospital.[7] The War Office closed the war hospital in winter 1919.[8] The main facility became the Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1925[9] and St. Brendan's Hospital in 1958.[10]

After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline.[11][12] In the 2008 Report of the Inspector of Mental Health Services it was recommended that acute admissions to the secure units 3A and 3B should cease due to their unsuitability and all admissions should be redirected to the new purpose-built unit at Connolly Hospital.[13] In June 2010, the Mental Health Commission instructed the hospital to stop the admission of acute patients on account of the "entirely unacceptable and inhumane conditions".[14] After many of the patients had been transferred to Connolly Hospital, the older facilities at St Brendan's Hospital were retired in November 2010.[15]

As part of the Grangegorman Development Plan, where a large portion of the site of the old hospital will be used to develop the new Technological University Dublin campus, new modern psychiatric facilities were developed.[16] A new state-of-the-art "Phoenix Care Centre", comprising 54 bedrooms and ensuites, recreational rooms, clinical rooms, administration areas, seclusion rooms and therapy gardens, opened in March 2013.[17]

Medical superintendents

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Medical superintendents included:

Association football clubs

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Since at least the 1920s various association football teams, including hospital works teams, played in the hospital grounds. These have included Grangegorman F.C. who were FAI Junior Cup finalists in 1928–29 and Leinster Senior Cup finalists in 1946–47. St. Brendan's F.C. were members of the League of Ireland B Division during the 1970s and 1980s. More recently Brendanville F.C., founded in 1963, were members of the Leinster Senior League. All three teams also played in the FAI Cup.[23][24][25]

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    Front elevation of male department (upper house on the west side of Grangegorman Road Upper) of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum 1854
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    The environs of the Richmond District Asylum in 1862[26]
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    The south wing, which is the only remaining wing of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum
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    Map of the grounds of St. Brendan's Hospital in 2011

References

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  1. ^ Inspector of Mental Health Services, Report of the Inspector of Mental Health Services 2009: St. Brendan's (Dublin, 2010), p. 1.
  2. ^ Reynolds, Joseph, Grangegorman: Psychiatric Care in Dublin since 1815 (Dublin, 1992), p. 23.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Joseph, Grangegorman: Psychiatric Care in Dublin since 1815 (Dublin, 1992), p. 1.
  4. ^ O'Shea, Brian, and Falvey, Jane, 'A history of the Richmond Asylum (St. Brendan's Hospital), Dublin' in Hugh Freeman and German E. Berrios (eds), 150 Years of British Psychiatry. Volume II: the Aftermath (London, 1996), p. 408.
  5. ^ "Kindred Lines: Lunatic asylum records". History Ireland. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  6. ^ Reynolds, Joseph, Grangegorman: Psychiatric Care in Dublin since 1815 (Dublin, 1992), pp 24, 46.
  7. ^ Kelly, Brendan D (19 February 2015). "Shell shock in Ireland: The Richmond War Hospital, Dublin (1916–19)". History of Psychiatry. 26 (1): 50–63. doi:10.1177/0957154X14554378. PMID 25698685. S2CID 41753493.
  8. ^ Durnin, D. (2019). "The Impact of the First World War on Irish Hospitals, 1918–1925. In: The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History". Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17959-5_6. S2CID 166920516. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Butterly, Lisa. "Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context" (PDF). National University of Ireland. p. 127. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  10. ^ Kelly, Brendan (2016). Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-1788550864.
  11. ^ "After the Asylum". The Irish Times. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  12. ^ Cotter, Noelle (2009). "Transfer of Care? A Critical Analysis of Post-Release Psychiatric Care for Prisoners in the Cork Region" (PDF). University College Cork. p. 5. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  13. ^ Inspector of Mental Health Services, Report of the Inspector of Mental Health Services 2008: St. Brendan's (Dublin, 2009), p. 2.
  14. ^ "'Inhumane' conditions in psychiatric hospitals". RTÉ. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  15. ^ Official Opening of the Pine Ward at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown Archived 18 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  16. ^ Grangegorman Development Agency, Grangegorman GDA Draft Strategic Plan 2010: Project Vision and Context 2 Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Dublin, 2010).
  17. ^ "The missing link to mental health services". The Irish Times. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  18. ^ T.K.McKeogh "Dr Joseph Lalor (1811–1886): A Credit to Ireland" in Old Kilkenny Review Kilkenny Archaeological Society 1996 no.48, p. 16
  19. ^ Finnane, Mark (1981). Insanity and the insane in post-famine Ireland. London: Croom Helm. pp. 219–20. ISBN 978-0-7099-0402-1.
  20. ^ "Notes and news". The Journal of Mental Science. 1923. p. 397. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  21. ^ Moylan, Thos. King (1 December 1944). "The District of Grangegorman". Dublin Historical Record. 7 (1): 1–15. JSTOR 30083896.
  22. ^ O'Shea, Brian & Falvey, Jane, 'A history of the Richmond Asylum (St. Brendan's Hospital), Dublin' in Hugh Freeman and German Berrios (eds), 150 Years of British Psychiatry. Volume II: the Aftermath (London, 1996), p. 411.
  23. ^ "Ireland – FA of Ireland Cup 1921/22-1993/94". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  24. ^ "Fallen Flags of the LOI". foot.ie. 24 November 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  25. ^ "Ireland Foundation Dates". RSSSF. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  26. ^ From Handbook for Dublin and its Environs including Bray and the Adjacent Parts of the County Wicklow with Map of the City and Street Maps of an Entirely New Plan. From Google Books

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