Jervis Street Hospital


Jervis Street Hospital was a hospital in Jervis Street in Dublin, Ireland. The site of the hospital became the Jervis Shopping Centre.

History

The hospital was founded by six Dublin surgeons, George Duany, Patrick Kelly, Nathaniel Handson, John Dowdall, Francis Donany and Peter Brenan, at their own expense, as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook Street, Dublin, in 1718. The hospital moved to a larger premises on King's Inn's Quay in 1728.
In 1786, when the new Four Courts were about to be erected on the quays, an agreement was reached with the Earl of Charlemont to allow the hospital to move into his former mansion at 14 Jervis Street, which happened in October 1796. Some time afterwards alterations were made in the house to convert it for hospital purposes. The hospital occupied a central place in the most populous part of the city, being close to the markets, railway termini, goods stores and the shipping.
In 1854 the nursing and internal management were placed under the control of the Sisters of Mercy. The hospital was rebuilt and enlarged to a design by Charles Geoghegan in the 1880s.
The hospital staged Araby, an oriental fête, in 1894, to raise much-needed funds. The name, Araby, would live as the title of one of James Joyce's short stories in Dubliners.
After services were transferred to the Beaumont Hospital, the Jervis Street Hospital closed in November 1987. The site of the hospital was redeveloped in the early 1990s to create the Jervis Shopping Centre with only the facade of the original hospital remaining.

Notable physicians

Notable physicians included: