HSE Orthopaedic Hospital Oral History Project (d'Orthopaedic)

Title

Subject

Ireland; Cork; Gurranabraher; Healthcare; Occupational Lore:

Description

This collection project was a collaboration between the CFP and the Cork North Community Work Department, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare, Health Services Executive, on the occasion of the development of St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Gurranabraher, as a Primary Care Centre. This hospital was know throughout Cork City as 'd'Orthopaedic'. The Memories of the Orthopaedic project focused on a cohort of nine interviewees who were associated with ‘the Orthopaedic’ as former staff (including medical and housekeeping), patients and locals who grew up near the hospital in Gurranabraher. The interviews, all but one of which were carried out by Joanne McNamara of the Health Services Executive, took place between April and September 2017. The project resulted in the publication of The Ministry of Healing, St Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital Cork: An Oral and Historical Record (by Tomás MacConmara for the CFP), and elements from the interviews were incorporated into an open-air display linked to a Slí na Sláinte (Path to Health) walking route on the new campus. The project was celebrated and the book launched on 12 April 2018 at the CFP Outreach Hub. The CFP and the HSE subsequently entered into a two-year partnership, the 'Oral History for Health' project that carries out oral history in health care contexts (2019-2020), the first strand of which is the HSE Grattan Street Stories project.

Date

April 2017 - September 2018

Identifier

Other Interviews in this Collection

CFP_SR00618_Dempsey_2017; CFP_SR00622_McNamara_2017; CFP_SR00625_McShane_2017; CFP_SR00626_O'Connell_2017; CFP_SR00628_Osullivan_2017; CFP_SR00632_Curtin_2017; CFP_SR00633_Sargent_2018; CFP_SR00648_Fitzgerald_2018; CFP_SR000673_Twomey_2018;

Coverage

Cork, Ireland, 1950s-2010s

Relation

Published Material

MacConmara, Tomás for the Cork Folklore Project (2018) The Ministry of Healing, St Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital Cork: An Oral and Historical Record. Cork: Health Service Executive.

Listening Events

Listening events were held where audio material from this collection was played in public and discussed by Cork Folklore Project researchers.

Listening Event by Kieran Murphy and James Furey at Hollyhill Library, 22nd August 2018 as part of Heritage Week

Listening Event by Kieran Murphy at Cork Folklore Project Hub, North Cathedral Visitor Centre, Roman Street Formal Launch of "The Ministry of Healing" (see above), April 2018

The Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive holds recordings of both these events.

Related Collection

The Grattan Street Stories: Memory of Place was also conducted in collaboration with the HSE.

Many of the services from Grattan Street Health Centre were to move to the new St. Mary's Health Campus (St Mary’s Primary Care Centre) Gurranabraher on the site of the Orthopaedic Hospital. Indeed some of the interviews for the Grattan Street project took place in this new centre.

There is thus some overlap in discussions related to the St. Mary's Health Campus (St Mary’s Primary Care Centre) Gurranabraher itself.