Architect and researcher Colm Murray will guide a tour of the fragmentary remains of Dublin's House of Industry, the hospitals that came after it, and the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, later St. Brendan's Hospital, Grangegorman. These institutional buildings in the North-West corner of old Dublin City bear witness to social attitudes to Others that trouble us now.
The tour will begin at TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus, East Quad Entrance at 1pm.
This guided walking tour is part of Heritage Week 2025.
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Grangegorman Histories
Grangegorman Histories is a public history programme of Dublin City Council, Grangegorman Development Agency, the Health Service Executive, local communities, the National Archives, the Royal Irish Academy and TU Dublin. The programme provides opportunities to contribute to the important work of uncovering, cataloguing and commemorating the eventful history of the Grangegorman area. In the past 250 years, Grangegorman, on the northside of Dublin’s city centre, has been the site of a workhouse, a large psychiatric hospital, a prison; now, it is integrating back into the city as a health and education campus for the HSE, TU Dublin and the local community.
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