Erin
Archivist | Currently at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | HistMed 🧪🩻| Swimmer | Reader | 🇨🇦/🇮🇪/🏴 | ARA Ireland Campaigns Officer | Views my own ✨ She/Her
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- Reposted by ErinWe are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 #ExploreYourArchive ambassador is @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social, historian, lecturer and Director of Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social. Mary will be joining us for the launch of the #EYA focus week at the Custom House Visitor Centre this Thursday!
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- Delighted to be taking part in this talk @rcsi.bsky.social with colleagues from the School of Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences exploring the history of pharmacy, the HCR Pharmaceutical Chemists archive & the innovative work being achieved in the school & wider profession as part of Heritage Week!
- There will also be guided tours that same week of RCSI’s historic buildings! 🔗 to book can be found on the Heritage Week website: www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...
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- From the HCR Pharmaceutical Chemists Archive, this scrapbook (RCSI/HCR/11/04/140) forms part of the Robinson Family’s personal photographic collection. Pictured are their travels in Portugal, Gibraltar, Spain & Algeria #EYATravel #EYATaisteal @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
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- For #InternationalNursesDay here are images from @rcsi.bsky.social Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Archive showcasing records from RCSI/FoN/08/04 which relate to the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing and the Lady Dudley Nursing Scheme in Ireland during the late 19th & 20th century.
- #OTD in May of 1957 the 10th World Health Assembly took place in Geneva. Pictured among those seated below are the Irish delegates Dr. James Deeny, Chief Medical Adviser and T.J. Brady, Assistant Secretary from the Department of Health, Rep. Ireland (RCSI/IP/Deeny/2/3/5/11) @who.int
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- Here we have a pocketbook which contains ‘Description Names and Botanical Sources of Plants used in the Manufacture of Garretts Herbine’ from the HCR Pharmaceutical Chemists collection @rcsilibrary.bsky.social Heritage Collections
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- It’s #WorldTheatreDay 🎭 & why not share some stunning operating theatre images from RCSI Digital Heritage Collections! RCSI/IP/Dickson/03/04/01 is a souvenir photograph album (1894-1898) which includes this fabulous image of Dr. Emily Winifred Dickson conducting an operation 🩸
- Today is #WorldTBDay & below is an image of correspondence & other materials which form part of the Deeny Collection (RCSI/IP/Deeny). James A. Deeny (1906-94) was a medical doctor & public health official (Chief Medical Advisor for the Dept. of Health in Ireland, 1944-50; 1954-62)
- In a recent episode of @physiciansgallery.bsky.social podcast: ‘Insomnia, Iron & the Itch’ one of the hosts mentions Blaud’s pills, a preparation of iron used to enrich the blood & treat anaemia. Below we have a bottle of Blaud’s pills in the HCR Pharmaceutical Chemists collection RCSI/HCR/04/01/05
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- It’s here!!!! A new favourite to add to the podcasts library alongside @rcpedin.bsky.social Casenotes! Brilliant & fascinating start to @surgeonshall.bsky.social “Beyond the Knife” with a discussion on dissection among other topics with @anatomicalcat.bsky.social! Give it a listen! 🎧 #histmed
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- A recent holiday visit to: The Ruins of the Chapel of Bones in Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹 an ossuary which was ravaged during an air raid during WWII & which I first learned about in @evinumen.bsky.social’s article “In Defence of Display….” 🔗 to the text is in the quoted post below ⬇️
- I just finished reading “In Defence of Display: Regarding Mortality and the Body on View” by @evinumen.bsky.social, Curator of the Old Anatomy Museum, School of Medicine of TCD & it was excellent! It was thought-provoking and entirely fascinating, highly recommend giving it a read (start p.57)!
- Yesterday was #NationalPharmacistDay! And what better way to celebrate than by sharing these images of medicine bottles from the Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists collection & this image of one of HCR’s branches: The Ballsbridge Medical Hall #pharmacy #histmed #irisharchives
- Margaret Rachel Huxley was born #OTD in 1855. Her first appointment in 1882 was as Matron of Dublin's National Eye and Ear Infirmary & in 1884 she was appointed Lady Superintendent and Matron of Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin. Image Credit: RCSI Heritage Collections ~ RCS/FoN/09/03
- Delighted I had the chance to write a blog exploring the history of the Mercer building (a site with over 700 years of medical history in Dublin!) & investigate links in the HCR Pharmaceutical Chemists collection to Mercer’s Hospital & Guinness Brewery! Some fun #histmed research to end the year!
- I was delighted to hear mention of Sir Charles Cameron (1830-1921) on the latest episode of Three Castles Burning, Dublin History Podcast hosted by Donal Fallon. Sir Cameron was at various points a Fellow, Professor, President, & historian of RCSI (Image: RCSI/IP/Cameron/2/2)
- The maternity ward at Christmas in the Hôpital irlandais de Saint-Lô where there were #Decorations & perhaps a few #Bells hanging from the ceilings and hopefully a #FestiveFeast for all these new mothers! #EYAFestive #ArchiveAdventCalendar #explorearchives @arascot.bsky.social
- #EYADoChartlann #EYAYourArchive RCSI Heritage Collections collect, preserve & curate material relating to the history of RCSI & to the development of medicine and surgery in Ireland. I’m so privileged to currently be part of the team & telling some of these stories @araireland.bsky.social #histmed
- I just finished reading “In Defence of Display: Regarding Mortality and the Body on View” by @evinumen.bsky.social, Curator of the Old Anatomy Museum, School of Medicine of TCD & it was excellent! It was thought-provoking and entirely fascinating, highly recommend giving it a read (start p.57)!
- For #EYAAnimals here is an image of a price list for Horse & Cattle Medicines along with their Uses & Doses which were sold by Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists (1897-1998) @araireland.bsky.social #histmed #historyofpharmacy #explorearchives
- At Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists, family was key to the ethos of how the business was run. It also continued to be managed and run by some of the descendants of the original founders until it was sold to Boots in 1998 #EYAFamily #explorearchives @araireland.bsky.social
- The Alchemist ✨ at work, perhaps on the #mythological ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ turning base metals into gold? Or creating an elixir of life? From the HCR Pharmaceutical Chemists collection (Image published by Bayer Pharma[?]) #EYAmythology #EYAMiotaseolaíocht @araireland.bsky.social
- For #EYAFashion I wanted to share these images from the General Nursing Council for England and Wales’ ‘Instructions with Regard to Uniform and Badge which may be worn by Registered Nurses’ published in 1931 @araireland.bsky.social #nursinghistory #histmed #explorearchives
- This book press from the Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists collection is definitely #huge! From the research I’ve done so far it would have been used to copy letters, very useful for Victorian record keeping I would think! #EYAHuge @araireland.bsky.social #explorearchives
- #EYATiny A collection of labels for tinctures, medications, general remedies & products sold by Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists (1897/1998), if you zoom in you’ll be able to see just how #tiny some of them are! @araireland.bsky.social #histmed #explorearchives #pharmacy
- Some of our medical #EYAHeroes who worked in the Hôpital irlandais de Saint-Lô between 1945/1946. Founding Dean of RCSI Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Mary Frances Crowley worked as Matron in the hospital & these images form part of a scrapbook in the Faculty’s historic collection (RCSI/FoN/05/02)
- Delighted to be taking on the role of Campaigns Officer with the ARA Ireland Committee, after the absolutely brilliant @niamhnicharra.bsky.social It’ll certainly be a new challenge for me but also an opportunity to continue building networks & new professional connections within the heritage sector!
- Reposted by ErinAs Chair (and outgoing Campaigns Officer) @niamhnicharra.bsky.social hands the role over to our outgoing Section for New Professionals Rep @erinmck96.bsky.social 🎊 Erin will be taking up the role on December 1st. If interested in joining the committee, we have a vacant @ARAnewprofs role to fill!
