Number 24. Winter 1988 €20.00
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A Family's Contribution 3
List of Sponsors 4
The Barringtons of Limerick by Dom Hubert Janssens de Varebeke 5
Sir Matthew Barrington: 1788-1861 by Mark Tierney 11
Sir Matthew Barrington, Bart: Obituary from The Warder 18
Health Services in Limerick in the Early 19th Century by Susan Connolly 19
Dr. John Geary and Dr. Wm. John Geary: 1779-1853 by M.E. Gleeson 25
Social Conditions and Medical Services before 1830 by Frances Twomey 29
The Origins and Early Years of Barrington’s Hospital by Mark Tierney 33
Doctors Differ by Jim Kemmy 41
The Barringtons and The Pery Square Tontine Company by Mark Tierney 44
The 1832 Cholera Epidemic by Kevin Hannan 48
The Mont De Piété by Mark Tierney 51
Gifts to the Citizens by Kevin Hannan 55
Glenstal Castle by Mark Tierney and John Cornforth 58
The Barringtons and their Tenants by Donal Ryan 63
Housing and Social Conditions: 1830-1940 by Jim Kemmy 69
The Threatened Hospital Closure: 1879 by Richard Ahern 74
‘Bring him to Barrington’s’ by Kevin Hannan 84
The Sporting Barringtons by Karl Johnston 89
A Farmer's Pleasure Garden 95
A Glenstal Boyhood by Fitzwilliam Barrington 97
Florence Barrington in Russia: 1917 by B.S. Faloon 101
Some Recollections by W.W. Gleeson 105
The Death of Winifred Barrington by Kevin Hannan 107
The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake and Barrington’s Hospital: 1931-1937 by Mark Tierney 114
The Barrington Dogs: Irish Water Spaniels by Mary-Rose Barrington-Manuel 120
A Letter to Sir Charles Barrington from William T. Cosgrave 122
Dr. Sarah O'Malley by Patsy Harrold 123
The Staff of Barrington's Hospital: 1900-1988 by Robert Holmes 125
Michael Roberts by Jim Kemmy 131
Sr. Joan Bluett by Kevin Hannan 133
Nurse Lily Flanagan by David Hanly 134
The Closure of a Hospital by Frank Hamilton 136