St. Vincent's Hospital, Fairview | |
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Shown in Dublin | |
Geography | |
Location | Fairview, Dublin, Ireland |
Coordinates | 53°22′00″N 6°14′38″W / 53.366685°N 6.24399°W / 53.366685; -6.24399 |
Organisation | |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1857 |
Links | |
Website | www |
St. Vincent's Hospital, Fairview (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Uinseann, Fionnradharc) is a small psychiatric hospitalinFairview, Dublin, Ireland.
The hospital was established, following a bequest by Elizabeth Magan (sister of the informant, Francis Magan), at Richmond House in Fairview in May 1857.[1] The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul were responsible for its operation from its founding, but following its decision to become a voluntary hospital in 1974, the daughters left in May 1998.[2] The hospital is mentioned in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man published in 1916.[2]
After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline.[3][4] However a new adolescent inpatient unit was opened in 2009.[2]
Olympic gold-medallist Kellie Harrington (Boxing, 2020) works there as a cleaner.[5]