The Heritage Centre is now #hiring a Collections Manager for our team  The candidate will be required to appraise + catalogue our object collections, ensuring high standards, + assisting in the preparation for our new museum. For more info + to apply: https://tinyurl.com/27aeekpe @rcpi.bsky.social

It's less than a month until Heritage Day at @rcpi.bsky.social's Annual Conference 🎉 Our expert panel will discuss the impact of cholera on history, literature and today's efforts to eradicate the disease in Zambia 😷 🦠 For more info and to register - https://tinyurl.com/4xf6ca93

On Friday we welcomed 1088 of you to our historic home at 6 Kildare St for @culturenightdub.bsky.social. We want to say a big thank you to everyone who took the time to see the building, our exhibition + of course the wonderful Dawson Chorus 🎵 Big thank you to our volunteers ❤️ See you next year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣

RCPI is more than just a pretty building, with lots of objects on display in our new exhibition 'Homesick' 🏠 Ever wonder what the 18th-century cure for baldness was? 👨‍🦲 19th-century magnetic quakery anyone?🧲 The answers await you, this Culture Night 🌙 @rcpi.bsky.social 🖱️: https://tinyurl.com/269su6fk

Thanks to Heritage Council funding, we were able to research into our Quin Tassie collection over the summer. Collections Assistant Sara has written a new blog, showing the background, process, + outcomes of this project (so far!). 🖱️: https://tinyurl.com/4p3hyk94 @rcpi.bsky.social

Celebrate the joy of music in a historic setting as RCPI presents the Dawson Chorus choir this Culture Night 🎼 Dublin's newest pop choir will be singing a selection of songs we all know and love, in the backdrop of the College's largest hall 🎵 🖱️: https://tinyurl.com/29tyuwe6

Looks who is back! Dr Samuel Gordon's portrait, and frame, have recently returned from conservation and are looking very smart as a result. The conservation of our collections is an ongoing task, and we rely on a number of fantastic and highly skilled conservators to help us care for our object.

The inside of the @rcpi.bsky.social's home is majestic in daylight, but you haven't quite seen its full magic until you see it at night 🌙 For Culture Night, we welcome you to 6 Kildare Street to walk the halls, count the portraits on our walls, + take a peek at the books lining the shelves 📚

The Heritage Centre at @rcpi.bsky.social is delighted to have partnered with Breakthrough Cancer Research for their new exhibition in Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, exploring innovation and hope. See what RCPI items you can spot when you visit 👀🔎 Read the full story: https://tinyurl.com/mr2zcvbn

Our Heritage team had a well-earned rest over the weekend, after what was a very busy yet rewarding Heritage Week. Over five days, we held 10 tours, 1 film screening and Q&A, 2 exhibitions and welcomed over 6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ of you to our historic home! Thank you to everyone who visited us ⭐ @rcpi.bsky.social

We have some extra spaces for our free upcoming curator-led tour of Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin (1903-1913) exhibition this Thursday. Explore the life + work of Casimir Markievicz through art, photos + objects 🖼️ For more info and how to book: https://tinyurl.com/3a3688dt 🖱️

Last night, we officially launched our new exhibition 'Homesick: Domestic Medicine in Ireland' 🏡 Thank you to everyone who attended! 'Homesick' will be open 10am to 4pm for next week's Heritage Week. Don't worry if you can't make it, view it online now: https://tinyurl.com/yc39zp2k @rcpi.bsky.social

#SundayWiMIN25 Week 32: Dr Katharine Maguire (1863-1931), winner of Hudson Scholarship at Adelaide Hospital, graduated Royal University of Ireland 1892. One of founding staff St Ultans Hospital, possibly Ireland's first female paediatrician. www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin25 @rcpiheritagecentre.bsky.social

T-minus one week until we kick off Heritage Week at @rcpi.bsky.social! We have a whole host of events taking place, from tours, a film screening and Q&A, as well as two new exhibitions! There's limited tickets left for our screening/tours, so be quick 🎫 For more info: https://tinyurl.com/567e5bar

Ever wondered how an object makes it from the stores to the exhibition case? Come with us as we prepare for our new upcoming exhibition 'Homesick: Domestic Medicine in Ireland, c.1760-1900', launching next week 👀  @rcpi.bsky.social #rcpi #rcpicollections #behindthescenes #medicalmuseum

Last year, we introduced the Heritage Centre cats for #InternationalCatDay, we are back this year with a new member! Sadly, they are not allowed into the office, but if they did there would be jobs for all Safety Officer Jiji, Security Fluffy & Aunty, Help Desk Piglet, Electrical engineer Pixie.

It's a busy week as we start on our @heritagecouncil.ie  funded project to research into our unique Quin Tassie Collection, with expert help from conservator Lorna Barnes, art historian Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth and @nationalgalleries.bsky.social  curator Liz Louis.

That feeling when you get back to your to-do pile after a long weekend 😲

What links the Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia and our past President, Henry Quin? 🤷 Find out this Heritage Week as we showcase our collection of Tassies (casts of classical gems), popular with 18th century collectors 🧐 🖱️ https://rb.gy/pl2ddn

#WorldHepatitisDay is a moment to reflect on the long history hepatitis with a selection of items from our collections that were used to treat liver disease. Explore all our online collections here https://rcpi-heritage.access.preservica.com/

For #WorldDrowningPreventionDay we have selected some items from our collections that tell the history of resuscitation methods, covering 200 years from 1777 to the 1970s! Explore more of our digital collections here https://rcpi-heritage.access.preservica.com/ #RCPICollections

We love seeing how people use our collections, whether for dissertations, books, or in this case, for a film! 📽️  Anne Maree Barry will join us for a screening of her film 'Leisure with Dignity' with Q&A + find out how she used a recipe book from RCPI for the film 🧀🥒 🖱️: https://tinyurl.com/2z2jkatu

Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave was born #OnThisDay in 1853. A physician, lecturer, RCPI President and keen photographer you can discover more about the collection of his items we hold in our online catalogue - https://tinyurl.com/EMCosgrave #RCPIHeritage #MedicalHistory #MedicalMuseums #RCPICollections

This Heritage Week we invite you to take a journey into the past exploring the medical treatments used in the home from the ordinary to the downright unusual! Honey and pigeon dung to cure baldness anybody?  🍯💩😆 Our new exhibition Homesick is open Monday 18 to Friday 22 August, 10am to 4pm daily.

This weeks #CollectionHighlight is the Brooks Airway, which revolutionised how the delivery of artificial respiration.  Designed by Dr Morris Brook (1911-1967) in 1957 as a hygienic and accessible solution to providing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.  #RCPICollections #MedicalMuseum #LifeSaving

Ever wondered what exactly is behind the big green doors at No 6 Kildare St? Want to peek at our library collection? 📚 or maybe see Napoleon's toothbrush? 🦷 Well, Heritage Week is your chance! Book your place on one of our tours here: https://tinyurl.com/y732ndtx 🖱️ Be quick🏃 @rcpi.bsky.social

It is that time of year again when we start getting ready for Heritage Week!  Our events are all centred around the history of medicine in Ireland ⚕️ and will run on weekdays of Heritage Week, 18-22 August 2025. Here's you can expect 👀 More details - https://tinyurl.com/224c26fe

🎉Congratulations to our Collections Assistant Alice, who has received a Research and Development Grant from the Irish Museums Trust in partnership with the Irish Museums Association. As well as cataloguing our medical instruments, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen (a busy girl).

New stock alert 🚨 We have copies of FRCPI Prof Peter Daly's book on philanthropist Mary Mercer (c.1670-1735), published by Four Courts Press. It covers her starting a shelter + school for girls at Stephen's Green, before becoming a poor hospital for over 250 years 🏥 🖱️: https://tinyurl.com/43s94mu8

We are excited to have received funding from @heritagecouncil.ie  to support a research & conservation project on the Quin Tassie collection of 26 drawers of miniature gem casts & moulds, created by James Tassie (1735-1799) & Dr Henry Quin (1717-1791).   Find out more - https://tinyurl.com/rj3xtzu6

We are proud to share that RCPI's Heritage Centre has signed the Safe to Create Dignity at Work Code of Behaviour - https://www.safetocreate.ie/ Signing this code reflects RCPI’s ongoing commitment to supporting an inclusive workplace for all.

Did you know we has a selection of glass lantern slides relating to the mystic Therese Neumann? Born in Bavaria in 1898, she claimed she had visions of Christ & bleeding from her eyes. She claimed to eat only the Holy Eucharist & was targeted by the Nazis for her anti-party sentiment.

We've been working away #behindthescenes over the last few weeks reboxing and rehousing our medical instrument collection. This is part of our ongoing cataloguing project, which has seen nearly 1,500 objects photographed and added to  the catalogue in the last year - https://tinyurl.com/2pem5bjx

Every month we highlight a product from @RCPI_news shop that we think you will ❤️ With summer approaching, RCPI has the perfect hydration companion. Our water bottle allows for drinks to stay cold for 24 hours or hot for up to 12💧 You can get yours: https://tinyurl.com/4rhm9wmr

New blog post celebrating the life of our recently deceased Fellow Dr Anne Merriman (1935-2025), who passed away in her Ugandan home last Sunday having just turned 90. We extend our condolences to those closest to Anne. You can read her In Memoriam here: https://tinyurl.com/4vy4edw5

#WhyArchive? As we have hopefully shown this month, archives contain something for everyone – from donkeys to frankly terrifying home remedies! Archives preserve our shared history & make it available to everyone. #Archive30 ⚕️  @arascot.bsky.social

Day 29 #Archive30. Our #UCD MA Archives intern catalogued the #ArchiveCollection of the Convalescent Home Stillorgan, containing minute books & financial records. CHS was founded in 1862 by Sir Joseph Napier & his wife as a place of rest & recovered for those of limited means 🤒 @arascot.bsky.social

Day 28 #Archive30. Today is #ArchivesBuildings so we’re taking a look at some of the many 18th & 19th century architectural prints here in the collection of #rcpiheritagecentre – everything from hospitals & villas, castles & cathedrals, round towers & temperance halls 🏛 @arascot.bsky.social

A huge thank you to Brian Crowley for the absolutely fantastic tour of Kilmainham Gaol he gave a group of our Members and Fellows on Saturday, a fascinating insight into the links between medical history and the history of the gaol. @opwireland.bsky.social

Did somebody say DISASTER? Because today is #ArchiveNightmares for #Archive30... Thanks to our just-in-case kit — gloves, bucket, mop, sponges, absorbent strips, Tyvek, and a deeeep breath — archivists can still sleep soundly 💤 (Well... moist of the time) @arascot.bsky.social

Day 26 #Archive30. In 1860, President Dominic Corrigan received his Grant of Arms; "a Chevron between two Trefoils slipped Verts in Chief and a Lizard in base proper" 🦎 Presented in a lovely box, it also features in the stained glass of Corrigan Hall, making it an #ArchiveObject @arascot.bsky.social

Day 25 #Archive30. We’ve acquired #SomethingNew. A first look at the medical certificates & papers of Martin Joseph Bray (b.1825). Bray studied medicine in Dublin c.1841-47 & was the Medical Officer for Newbridge & Kildare. He moved to Chicago in 1859 & worked as a physician 🩺 @arascot.bsky.social

Day 24 #Archive 30. Our most #PopularItem are the diaries of Kathleen Lynn kept between 1916 & her death in 1955, covering her political & medical careers 🥼 The diaries are in an unusual form, with very small, cramped handwriting, creating compact blocks of illegible text 🖋️  @arascot.bsky.social

Day 23 #Archive30 is #CommunityArchives. Dr Kirkpatrick (1869-1954) collected newspaper cuttings, notes, and extracts of 12000 Irish doctors living between 1650 + 1950. The Index is available digitally on Ancestry.com for uncovering Ireland's medical and family history 💻🖱️ @arascot.bsky.social

Day 22 #Archive30. In late 1900, #RCPI and #RCSI brought legal action against a Mr Haddock who was found to have impersonate someone else at a College exam 🕵️📝 The legal costs for proceedings in this #ArchiveAction: £29.11.10 = over £4000 in today's money 💰

Day 21 #Archive30. Our #ArchiveMyths comes with a don’t try this at home warning! Dr MacNamara’s 'Do-it-yourself medicine in County Clare during the first half of the nineteenth century’ has medical receipts for eye inflammation, sore throats & deafness. Spoiler 🥚 required

Day 20 #Archive30. This 1947 edition of “The Anchorite” newsletter, produced by patients at the Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Co. Wicklow, includes stories, poems, puzzles & advice on how to keep boredom at bay while in hospital. Lamp shade making anyone? #FunandGames

Day 19 #Archive30. In the summer of 1895 Sir Dominic Corrigan visited Great Britain, France & Italy. This extract & illustration from his travel diary gives a detailed account of mix bathing in Italy. Corrigan was ‘not a little startled’ by the whole experience. #ArchiveTravel

Day 18 of #Archive30 is #ArchiveAdvice. Our physicians give out lots of advice, these two prescriptions from Sir William Wilde (1815–1876), ophthalmologist and father of poet Oscar Wilde, were issued for eye conditions and digestive issues.

Day 17 #Archive30. We recently celebrated a #MiniMilestone here at the Heritage Centre when Chiará completed filing and packing the ‘O’ patient files from the Royal Hospital Donnybrook. From the Oates to the Owgan’s, there sure were a lot – 186 to be exact!