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The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake was a lottery established in the Irish Free State in 1930 as the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake to finance hospitals. It is generally referred to as the Irish Sweepstake or Irish Sweepstakes, frequently abbreviated to Irish Sweep or Irish Sweeps. The Public Charitable Hospitals (Temporary Provisions) Act ...
Because O'Farrell was the woman who actually delivered the surrender she tends to be the better remembered of the couple. In the years after the Rising and wars Grenan worked for the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes office in Ballsbridge and also as a furrier in Dublin. The two women lived together at 27 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
This building was built to designs by Thomas J. Cullen (1879-1947) and was part of an extensive hospital construction programme initiated during the first decades of the Free State. Its construction was probably largely funded by money raised through the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, as was the case with most Irish hospitals built at this time.
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A couple who scooped £1 million on the National Lottery have joined other winners to help out at the hospital that saved their son’s life. Ceri and Paul Roscoe-Roberts, who won on the ...
He left a son, Benjamin Guy Babington, [5] also physician to Guy's Hospital, and a daughter, Martha, who married the physician Richard Bright. [6] A statue of Babington by William Behnes (1795–1864) is in St Paul's Cathedral in London. [7] Anthony Babington, the Irish politician was a direct descendant, as is Carlos Babington, an Argentinian ...
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