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Temple Street have kept us going. Their everyday has been to care, to help, to heal, to comfort. We bring our babies into this world and we rely so much on those in the wards to help keep them there...From then to now there are catalogues of evidence of the wonderful, beautiful, magical, heart-lifting and heart-breaking stories of those who passed through its halls and inhabited its rooms; stories which have remained silent for so many years. You know the expression, if those walls could talk….Well, now they are talking, on the pages of this book.' - Cecelia Ahern

Founded in 1872, Temple Street is now one of Ireland’s best recognised children’s hospitals. From the nurses who used to smuggle ‘Penny Horribles’ onto the wards, to the child whose journey to Dublin took seven hours on a turf-fired train, memories of Temple Street are as rich as they are varied. Today, the old buildings still resonate with stories but one tradition has not changed – a deep commitment to the well-being of Irish children.

Drawing on sparkling interviews with past patients, retired staff members and others, this book takes a unique look past the hall door to uncover the life of a place that started as a private residence but has since become a world-class hospital.

Illustrated throughout by beautiful photographs and images from the history, past and present of the hospital, Temple Street Hospital: An Illustrated History is a beautiful and engaging tribute to this brilliant institution and its wonderful staff.

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Barry Kennerk

Barry Kennerk graduated with a PhD in history from St. Patrick’s College, Dublin in 2014. He is the author of five books, including the critically acclaimed Moore Street – The Story of Dublin’s Market District (Mercier Press, 2012). He has occasionally contributed to newspapers at home and abroad including the Irish Times and New York Times. His work has also featured in a number of peer-reviewed publications including the Journal of Medical Biography and Oxford Journal’s Social History of Medicine. He currently teaches English and history at Belvedere College, Dublin.

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Temple Street Children’s Hospital

An Illustrated History

Barry Kennerk

Temple Street Children’s Hospital: An Illustrated History

First published in 2014

by New Island Books,

16 Priory Hall Office Park,

Stillorgan,

County Dublin,

Republic of Ireland.

www.newisland.ie

Barry Kennerk has asserted his moral rights.

PRINT ISBN: 978-1-84840-389-5

EPUB ISBN: 978-1-84840-390-1

MOBI ISBN: 978-1-84840-391-8

All rights reserved. The material in this publication is protected by copyright law. Except as may be permitted by law, no part of the material may be reproduced (including by storage in a retrieval system) or transmitted in any form or by any means; adapted; rented or lent without the written permission of the copyright owner.

The author has taken every reasonable step to secure publication permission from the copyright holders of these photographs and where applicable, to ensure that the names of those depicted are accurate. Any captioning errors or omissions, once brought to his attention or that of the publisher, will be rectified on future print editions.

British Library Cataloguing Data.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on Sources

A Note on Terminology

Foreword by Cecelia Ahern

Introduction

The Big House – The Story of Buckingham Street Infirmary (1872–1879)

Sawdust and Confusion

Leading the Way in Medical Advancement

The Convent Community

Field of Honey – Fundraising at Temple Street

End of the Victorian Era

Christmas at Temple Street

Children of the Revolution (1916–1922)

The Emergency Years (1939–1945)

The Hospital through the Eyes of a Child

Children’s Nursing

Voices of Temple Street

From House to Modern Hospital

Conclusion

Bibliography

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

I would like to begin by thanking the team at New Island for taking on this project as well as author Cecelia Ahern, whose foreword has captured the essence of what Temple Street means to the children and families it serves. Thereafter, I would like to acknowledge my friends and colleagues for their support and enthusiasm. They include our photographer, Tommy Nolan, Thomas Prior, Yvonne Thompson, the projects team and all my colleagues in the neurosurgical department. Where possible, I have tried to expand upon our knowledge, but recognition is also due to past hospital historians, Dr F.O.C. Meenan and Sr Magdalene McPartlan, RSC, who saw to it that new staff members understood their roles in furthering the mission first undertaken by the Sisters of Charity founder, Mother Mary Aikenhead. I reserve special thanks to Joe Duffy and the team at RTE’s Liveline , the Evening Herald , Ireland’s Own and to Pat O’Rourke at The People Group . Each of these publications helped to spread the word about the project in its early stages and, as a result, many people (some of whom would have been difficult to locate otherwise) came forward to contribute their photographs and memories. The National Photographic Archive and Irish Architectural Archive also assisted in locating old plans and photographs of the hospital – some of which appear here.

Throughout its long history, Temple Street Children’s Hospital has been about ordinary men and women doing extraordinary things on behalf of the children of Ireland. It is both an honour and a privilege to write about them and their achievements.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anama.

A Note on Sources

In preparing this book for publication, I have visited several archives, each of which is abbreviated below. In addition, I have drawn heavily on the hospital’s own papers, none of which have been catalogued at the time of writing. Perhaps this book may serve as the inspiration to preserve this material for future generations.

Dublin Diocesan Archives DDA

Irish Architectural Archive IAA

Irish Military Archives IMA

National Archives of Ireland NAI

National Library of Ireland NLI

Registry of Deeds ROD

Royal College of Physicians in Ireland RCPI

Sisters of Charity Archive SCA

Temple Street Hospital Archive TSA

University College Dublin Archive UCDA

A Note on Terminology

The Sisters of Charity is underpinned by the rule of St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuit order. The priests had a ‘father rector’ in each community. Likewise, the sisters answered to a ‘mother rectress’. Today, the latter term has become somewhat archaic and from the early twentieth century onwards, the head of the congregation at Temple Street was increasingly referred to as ‘mother superioress’ or ‘mother superior’ – the title which is used throughout this book.

Dedicated to Professor Ian Temperley in grateful

appreciation for everything I hold most dear

A nurse washes a baby with care at Temple Street Hospital, c.1930, (Hospital collection)

Foreword by Cecelia Ahern

The very same day that I was asked to contribute to this book, I was trying to figure out what to write when my then three-year-old daughter, who seemed a little down, shared with me her recent lesson that her heroes, superheroes , aren’t real after all. They are just cartoons, or movies. Not living in this world. She was crushed by the idea. I told her that she was wrong; that of course superheroes exist.

‘They wear costumes?’

‘Of course they do.’

‘They fight the bad guys?’

‘Absolutely.’

Fire-fighters, police, paramedics, doctors, nurses all put their costumes on and help save the lives of people every single day. Sometimes we might walk past them and not even know that we have been in the company of somebody who has managed the incredible feat of saving another person’s life, or who has nursed a person back to health. They look like ordinary people, though they do extraordinary things, and they themselves might not even realise how extraordinary they are, because as a mother it is not just the obvious things that can help – it is the smallest things, such as a caring word, a supportive phrase, a comforting smile, which can help heal the worries of a parent when their child is sick.

My connections with Temple Street go back far. My mother worked in the kitchens at the age of fourteen on her summer holidays and it is where my parents’ families have dashed in the moments we all dread. I have spent time in Temple Street with a child of mine, I have slept on that floor beside that cot, listening to the sounds of machines, seeing tubes going from an instrument into my child and wondering and fearing about everything a parent worries about in a moment like that. The angels in Temple Street have kept us going. Their everyday has been to care, to help, to heal, to comfort. We bring our babies into this world and we rely so much on those in the wards to help keep them there.

Temple Street Hospital has existed at this address since 1879. From then to now there are catalogues of evidence of the wonderful, beautiful, magical, heart-lifting and heart-breaking stories of those who passed through its halls and inhabited its rooms; stories which have remained silent for so many years.

You know the expression, if those walls could talk….Well, now they are talking, on the pages of this book.

Introduction

Temple Street Children’s Hospital is now a household name in Ireland. At the time of writing, it stands as the only remaining children’s institution in the heart of Dublin City. It was founded just twenty years after Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and continues to maintain a proud tradition in caring for sick children from all over the country.

Like many of my colleagues, I first came to know the hospital as a patient. I have a vivid memory of being rushed there as a toddler in the late 1970s, when I put my hand on a burning log in my granny’s fireplace. The visit left a blurred impression of hard tiles, nurses and lights. Later, in the mid 1990s, I started my first summer job as a kitchen porter, swabbing down the terracotta-tiled floors. Since then, I have filled many other roles on either a casual or full-time basis. I remember the meningitis scare during the mid-1990s, when I could hardly leave the desk in A&E and the street was crammed with travelling people’s vans. Equally, I have witnessed the strength of that same community fill the chapel as they prayed for the recovery of a sick child – the most powerful affirmation of faith imaginable.

As father to two girls, I have also seen the hospital from a parent’s perspective – an anxious drive to A&E in the early hours; sweating in a lead apron while a fractured arm or chest is being X-rayed, the worry while waiting for test results to come through.

Life at Temple Street is multi-faceted – too varied perhaps for a complete history to be written and this book makes no such pretence. Every day, the building plays mute witness to the miraculous and the tragic. Its doors are kept open by a diverse team that includes not just doctors and nurses, but maintenance personnel, household staff, porters and allied health professionals. Indeed, the biggest challenge in writing this book has not simply been drawing together their stories into a single narrative, but also situating each account in its historical context. As a result, some departments will not feature or may receive only scant mention but that bears no reflection on the value of their work.

Over the past two years, I have interviewed over sixty past staff and patients, some of whom have since passed away. For many of them, recounting their time at Temple Street was clearly a cathartic experience. This is their book, and I hope that it does them justice.

Child undergoing treatment in the hospital outpatients department, 1914. Note the Sacred Heart statue in the background. (Hospital collection)

1 The Big House – The Story of Buckingham Street Infirmary (1872-1879)

No. 9 Upper Buckingham Street as it appeared in 1972 on the eve of the hospital’s centenary. During the twentieth century, No. 9 had been pressed into service to help Dublin’s poor and was known as the stew house. At the time this picture was taken, the family of a coal merchant lived on the top floor. He delivered his goods by horse-drawn cart and often stopped for a pint in the Brian Boru Public House in nearby Phibsborough. His horse was experienced enough to make the return journey to Buckingham Street by itself, drawing up safely outside the hall door every night. (Hospital collection)

Temple Street Hospital, now one of Ireland’s best-recognised institutions, had the most humble of beginnings. It started life in a late nineteenth-century city characterised by a stark contrast between rich and poor; one in which almost half of the 250,000 inhabitants lived in cramped, single-room tenement apartments, often just streets away from their wealthy neighbours.

Disease and malnutrition were rife in the poorly-lit Georgian tenements. Rickets – a deformity of the bones – was so commonplace that it hardly attracted notice and in many cases was caused by a meagre diet, often with skimmed milk or buttermilk which was deficient in Vitamin D.¹ Many Dubliners shared single outdoor toilets which were little more than breeding grounds for flies and parasites. In the evenings they piled into crumbling rooms where typhus fever, spread by lice in their clothing, was inescapable. Outside, a charcoal-smelling fog lingered, brought on by coal fires which choked the lungs, and many babies died with no medical attention of any kind. Broken stairwells and faulty railings ensured that many more succumbed to serious injury and death.

Against this backdrop, St. Joseph’s Infirmary for Children (Temple Street’s forerunner) stood as a beacon of hope. Opened in November 1872, it was unlike other small, charitably run institutions because it served a specific and long-standing need – medical care for poor children in their own environment. The committee established to oversee the project met for the first time in 1871. It was led by Ellen Woodlock, a widow from Cork, and Sarah Atkinson, from Roscommon, two able women with excellent track records in charity work. Mrs Woodlock had spent some time as a novitiate with the Sisters of St Louis in France during the 1840s, but left before she completed her training.² Returning to Ireland, she threw herself into a number of philanthropic endeavours, including St. Joseph’s Industrial Institute on Richmond Road, Fairview, which she co-founded with Sarah Atkinson in 1855.³ The aim of the institute was to save young workhouse girls from misery and, six years later, Woodlock was the only woman to give evidence at a House of Commons select committee on poor relief in Ireland.⁴

The house they chose for their new infirmary was No. 9 Upper Buckingham Street, a large three-bay house of exceptional size. Built by Irish statesman John Beresford, it boasted massive first-floor windows and an upstairs view of the Hill of Howth.⁵ Beresford’s son Claudius, who lived there during the early nineteenth century, had bankrupted the family with his lavish entertainments and afterwards it passed into a succession of hands.⁶

An idealised depiction of No. 9 Upper Buckingham Street from a 1972 sketch by N. Latimer. (Hospital collection)

During the summer of 1872, the painters and carpenters set to work. Beds were brought in and a wooden recess was installed at the top of the grand staircase for milk, fruit and other items. The hospital committee, which rotated on an annual basis, included two secretaries and a treasurer, the first of whom was Thomas Woodlock⁷ of Uplands, Monkstown. He appealed for donations, including gifts of clothes, books and toys in order to defray the infirmary’s running costs. On glancing through this list, we find pots of jam, storybooks cakes, homemade baby clothes as well as a music box from Mr Bianconi, proprietor of the famous coach company.⁸

First floor landing of No. 9 Upper Buckingham Street. (Author’s collection)

By 7 November 1872, the Buckingham Street infirmary was finally ready to open its doors. The matron presided over a little coterie of nurses but in general the hospital was managed ‘by women

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