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Commemorating Convicts: Grangegorman to Tasmania

Book tickets for our event that explores the 40,000 convicts that were transported from Ireland to Australia, including 3,200 women and about 500 girls transported from the Richmond Penitentiary at Grangegorman between 1787 and 1868.

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Asylum: Inside Grangegorman

New publication by Brendan Kelly available now

Explore Grangegorman's Histories

A series of short introductory articles uncovering the histories of Grangegorman.

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‘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,…

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‘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,…

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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…

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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,…

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Grangegorman Lives

Biographies of over 60 men and women from all walks of life whose lives influenced or were influenced by Grangegorman.

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Grangegorman Lives: Sir Robert Henry Woods

Our Grangegorman Lives series continues with Sir Robert Henry Woods (1865 – 1938), a surgeon and later an MP.

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Grangegorman Lives: James Celestine Carr

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

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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.

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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.

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Grangegorman Histories programme of activities / implementation plan 2022-25

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Working Group

The Grangegorman Histories Expert Working Group is made up of members from the Founding Partners

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Watch back the recording of the seminar hosted by Grangegorman Histories, during the Dublin Festival of History.

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Unveiling Grangegorman’s Histories: Five public call awardees announced

The public call, which invited proposals for projects to explore and share any element of the history of Grangegorman contributes to the important work of…

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Dr Ivor Browne

Grangegorman Histories was saddened to hear of the death of Dr Ivor Browne, who was the Chief Medical Superintendent at St Brendan’s Hospital, Grangegorman for…

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Recipient of PhD focusing on ‘Histories of Grangegorman Site and Society, 1770-2012’ selected

Colm Murray has been selected as PhD recipient

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Contact us

For more information contact Grangegorman Development Agency, 4th Floor, Park House, 191 North Circular Road, Dublin 7 D07 EWV4.

Email: grangegormanhistories@ggda.ie