Handwritten Minutes from the Management Committee Meeting 11th September 1900

The business done at the Board meetings was quite varied as can be seen from the following minutes.

The Farm Book was considered and approved. It was decided not to replace the three dry cows reported upon but to feed some oil-cake to them. A further report to be made at the next meeting.
The Chairman was requested to make arrangements to have the sow and bonhams advertised for sale at Marsh’s Saturday Sale inspected and if thought desirable, purchased for the institution.
On the motion of Mr Cronin it was decided that the bread remaining over from the meals should be weighed each day for a month and the result submitted to the next House Meeting.
The Agent for the Southern Insurance Company, Mr Clare, having died – application was made by the General Accident Insurance Company for the risks to the Asylum is £10,000. The Committee recommended that the premium be paid through Mr James Donovan.
The RMS (Resident Medical Superintendent) submitted a report on dietary scales in use in Irish Asylums which was directed to be presented for the information of the next House Committee.
The Complaint of M O’Gorman with reference to visiting of patients was considered and the recommendation of the RMS was approved. The Committee would not recommend any departure to the visiting times.
The RMS reported that since Attendant Linton had left the service, there was no one to play the harmonium in the Protestant church. The Committee recommended that, if there was no objection, Mr Devlin (Band Master) should be requested to perform the duties, and failing that the RMS should be requested to make some arrangement of a temporary nature.
The Committee recommends that the funeral expenses of the late Attendant Connor be defrayed to the extent of £10.. he having contracted the illness through which he lost his life in attending upon Typhoid cases – provided there is a precedent for such payment and – in case of a surcharge – an indemnification be given by his father.

This concluded the business of the meeting.

We might have thought that all Attendant’s names would appear in the Register of Male Attendants, however, it seems not to be the case. I have come upon a reference to an Attendant Geary whose name appears in the Minutes of the House Committee but not in the Register.

Attendant Geary and his colleague expressed their dissatisfaction at the pace of promotion. They made a complaint to the House Committee and were, probably horrified when, they were called before the board to make their case. The minutes record.

“.. in previous years, Attendants with shorter service had been promoted and they [Geary and his colleague] had acted as Second in Charge of a ward – they did not insist that any Attendant had been promoted over them. The Resident Medical Superintendent explained that there were a fixed number of Attendants in each class. That promotion from 3rd Class to 2nd Class almost always went by seniority, that Geary was Second Senior in 3rd Class and his colleague 6th from the top of the list but stated that neither of them had shown much proficiency in the knowledge of rules and duties when recently questioned by him. [If they were now regretting going before the board, things were about to get worse for them]
In reply to a question as to their conduct, the RMS stated that Geary was an intelligent man of good character but his colleague had twice been reported for drunkenness. In the view of the Committee it was considered that in promoting Attendants from a lower to a higher grade, the mere fact of seniority without thorough competence gave no claim to promotion and it should be an instruction of the RMS that in all cases where advancement in the service was to take place that an examination as to the qualifications and character should be made before any promotion and that an Attendant whose qualifications and competence were not satisfactory should not be promoted into the next class..”

Rev McKeown 13.7.1900. Presbyterian Chaplain

Patrick McCarthy. Appointed 12.1.1900. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Retired to go to America 10.2.02

Patrick Aherne. Appointed 14.1.1900. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant.

James Hennessy. Appointed 13.2.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. 39 years. Resigned 4.8.1900.

Michael Hennessy. Appointed 13.2.1900. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 11.6.1901

Michael Ryan. Appointed 13.2.1900. 38 year. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 12.7.1900.

Patrick Cronin. Appointed 13.2.1900. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 12.12.1902

Robert Royce. Appointed 13.2.1900. 38 years 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 1.3.1900

William Moynihan. Appointed 13.2.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted to 2nd Class Attendant 1.6.1902. Promoted to Charge Attendant in Youghal 1.2.1904. Resigned 10.3.1904 to go nursing in England. Satisfactory.

Timothy Shea. Appointed 13.2.1900. 37 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted to 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.1902.

John O’Keeffe. Appointed 21.3.1900. 30 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 1.3.1901.

Richard Lehane. Appointed 17.4.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 6.4.1900. Did not agree with his health.

Patrick Haley. Appointed 1.5.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. 25 years. Promoted to 2nd Class Attendant 11.6.1902. Resigned 1.9.1902 to fill another appointment.

Samuel Maguire. Appointed 17.5.1900. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left due to ill health

James Jones. Appointed 5.6.1900. 30 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 12.12.1900.

Timothy Murphy. Appointed 12.6.1900. Night watchman. Appointed caretaker and Gardiner at Youghal Asylum 23.11.1907.

Rules adopted at Committee of Management 11.6.1900

John Murphy. Appointed 29.6.1900. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 21.4.1903.

Timothy Coleman. Appointed 10.7.1900. 31 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 21.10.1900

Cornelius O’Mahony. Appointed 10.7.1900. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 11.10.1900.

Joseph Rice. Appointed 16.7.1900. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 19.7.1900

Matthew Cronin. Appointed 1.7.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 10.12.1901.

Thomas Daly. Appointed 16.8.1900. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 27.11.1900. Dissatisfied.

Joseph Kenny. Appointed 22.8.1900. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 14.10.1900

William Power. Appointed 18.9.1900. 23 years. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 14.11.1900

Daniel Leahy. Appointed 9.10.1900. Night Fireman (paid hourly). Appointed Stoker 16.7.1923 on the recommendation of the RMS. Superannuated 16.1.1937. Very satisfactory.

Timothy Murphy. Appointed 17.10.1900. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 14.11.1900

David Keating. Appointed 22.10.1900. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Discharged 14.11.1900. Half inch under standard size.

Jeremiah Regan. Appointed 22.10.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 8.11.1900

William Kelly. Appointed 13.11.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 16.3.1901.

John Cronin. Appointed 13.11.1900. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 22.3.1905. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.6.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 8.1.1923. In Charge of Infirmary 4.7.1929. John married Ellen Creedon, a domestic servant who lived at 62 South Main Street. Her father was Cornelius who was a labourer. John’s Father is a farmer. They were married in the Church of St Finbarrs and the marriage was witnessed by Bat Mahony and Brigit Creedon.

Matthew Noonan. Appointed 17.11.1900. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 10.12.1901

Patrick Connell. Appointed 17.11.1900. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 22.3.1902 to fill a position in the Prison Service.

Thomas Jones. Appointed 13.11.1900. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 1.1.1903. Thomas married Nora Drinan of 19 Parnell Place – who was also on the staff – on 8 June 1911. they married at St Finbarr’s Church, witnessed by Jim Jones and Mary Drinan. Both fathers were farmers. He was promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.6.1925. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.8.1928. Died in Mercy Hospital 1.8.1934. I think that Mary’s brother is also on the staff – see entry for Thomas Drinan 1901.

William Magner. Appointed 14.11.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.1902. Resigned 10.3.1903

John McCarthy. Appointed 26.11.1900. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 12.12.1900.

David Burke. Appointed 27.11.1900. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Left 12.12.1900.

Patrick O’Leary. Appointed 27.11.1900. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Resigned 19.2.1904

1901

Resident Medical Superintendent’s House; Built 1900. Terrence McSweeney spent many nights here during the War of Independence

Patrick Tynan. Appointed 20.2.1901. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Resigned 7.01.

Cornelius Bullman. Appointed 16.3.1901. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Left 1.11.1901 to join Cape Police. Difficult to know what this entry means. Cape Police might be Capetown Police in South Africa- we know that several Attendants had been called up to the Army to go to South African Boer War in the years just before 1901. He was born 20 May 1880 at Templeusque, Glanmire to Cornelius and Bridget Bullman. His father was a labourer.

Matthew O’Rourke. Appointed 16.3.1901. 29 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Resigned 12.4.1901 – ill-health

John Aherne. Appointed 9.5.1901. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Left 31.5.1901

John Glavin. Appointed 23.5.1901. Left 6.8.1901

John Kennedy. Appointed 23.5.1901. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary.

John Durham. Appointed 11.6.1901. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Left 10.7.1901.

Patrick O’Keeffe. Appointed 22.6.1901. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Resigned 10.10.01.

Thomas Drinan. Appointed 9.7.1901. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.1903. Promoted Charge Attendant 6.4.1923. Resigned 17.10.1933. Thomas married Mary Twomey of 27 Church Street on 22 April 1906 at the North Cathedral. His father, Michael, is a farmer. Mary’s father, John (deceased) was also a farmer. Have a look back at entry for Thomas Jones at 1900.

Richard Clarke. Appointed 9.7.1901. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.1.1903. Promoted Charge ?? Superannuated 20.8.1935.

Michael Riordan. Appointed 10.7.1901. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 22.8.1902 – I’ll-health.

Thomas O’Sullivan. Appointed 9.7.1901. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 1.1.1903. Resigned 1.7.1903 to go private nursing in England

William Regan. Appointed 11.7.1901. 21 years.3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Resigned 24.8.1901 going to Australia.

Daniel Moynihan. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed on recommendation of RMS

Dr Owen T McCarthy. Appointed 9.7.1901. 30 years. 4th Assistant Medical Officer. 18.4.1922. RMS. Died November 1930.

John Daly. Appointed 8.7.1901. 3rd Class Attendant. Left due to Ill-health

Martin Moore. Appointed 23.9.1901. 21 years. 3rd Class Bandsman

James Barry. Appointed 24.10.1901. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Promoted Night Duty 11.11.02. Resigned 23.9.1904.

Daniel Donovan. Appointed 26.10.1901. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant

Patrick Stack. Appointed 16.10.1901. 3rd Class Attendant

Anthony Coughlan. Appointed 11.11.1901. 3rd Class Attendant

Daniel Roche. Appointed 10.12.1901. 3rd Class Attendant. 25 years. Left 12.5.1907

Michael Duane. Appointed 10.12.1901. 24 years. Promoted Night Duty 1.10.1902. Resigned to go Private Nursing in England

John Hurley. Appointed 10.12.1901. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 1.10.1902 Night Duty. Resigned 23.11.1902 to join Royal Irish Constabulary

Timothy O’Sullivan. Appointed 10.12.1901. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 10.3.1902 due to ill-health

George Donnellan. Appointed 10.12.1901. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left to join the Army Reserve.

John Bradley. Appointed 10.12.1901. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.1903. Died at St Patrick’s Hospital on 8.9.1905. The cause of death is recorded as TB.

Kate Aherne. Appointed 25.4.1901. Temporary Attendant. Left 11.6.1901. Not strong enough

Anne Marie Connolly. Appointed 1.5.1901. 24 years. Temporary Attendant. 1.6.1901 went out on Pass and is still away.

Rebecca Woods. Appointed 3.5.1901. 34 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 20.12.1901. Vacancy filled

Minnie Cooke. Appointed 21.5.1901. Left 12.12.1901 – vacancy filled

Margaret Barrett. Appointed 4.6.1901. 21 years. Left 12.3.1902 – required at home

Mrs Clara Chamboisour. Appointed 12.6.1901. Head Night Nurse. Left 11.12.1901 – Mrs Reynolds having resumed duty

Anna Madden. Appointed 11.6.1901. 30 years. Left 12.12. 01. Vacancy filled

Kate O’Keeffe. Appointed 12.7.1901. 25 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 9.1907. Left to get married 11.2.1914

Nora Brosnan. Appointed 13.7.1901. Temporary Attendant

Mary Desmond. Appointed 30.9.1901. Temporary Attendant. Left 5.12.1901 – did not like Asylum work

Sheila Hunter. Appointed 30.9.1901. Left 14.5.1902

Mary Murphy. Appointed 10.10.1901. Temporary Attendant. Left 12.12.1901. Vacancy filled

Mary McCarthy. Appointed 12.12.1901. Left 30.4.1903. Left, going for midwifery nursing

Angela Crowley. Appointed 12.12.1901. 19 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.1903. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.1.1914. Resigned 2.3.1915. Angela married Patrick O’Keeffe – also on the staff – on 23 November 1915. She lived at 69 Blarney Street. Her father was James, who was a labourer. They were married in the North Cathedral. Witnessed by Daniel O’Keeffe and Mary Collins.

Nora Flynn. Appointed 12.12.1901. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 10.1907. Left 16.12.1911 – entering a convent

Julia Callaghan. Appointed 20.12.1901. Went to Youghal Asylum

Staff Working or Living at the Cork District Lunatic Asylum; Census Night April 1901

The Asylum hired a special clerk to record the names of the staff who were on the premises at midnight on Census night. the information recorded includes name, age, where they were from and rank. Disappointingly, the records only state if the staff were from the City or the County instead of the actual address.

A
Archdeacon Maurice 56 County 2nd Class
Attridge Arthur 35 County 2nd Class

B
Bulman Charles 21 County 3rd Class
Burke Ptk 30 City Laundryman
Burke John 30 County 2nd Class
Buttimer William 22 County Night Att
Barry Timothy 22 County Night Att
Barry Hannah 28 County Head Att
Buckley Helena 22 County 3rd Class
Buckley Kate 25 County 3rd Class
Barry Kate 21 County 3rd Class
Barrett Nora 23 County 3rd Class
Bracken Michael 56 Queens County. Gate Porter
Berry John 38 County 2nd Class Attendant

C
Connell Ptk 21 County 3rd Class
Carey Ptk 21 County 3rd Class
Cronin Matthew 24 County 3rd Class
Cronin Jerh 24 County 2nd Class
Crowley David 25 County 3rd Class
Crowley Ptk 22 County 3rd Class
Crowley John 24 County 3rd Class
Cronin Ptk 21 County 3rd Class
Cronin John 21 County 3rd Class
Cahill Denis 50 County Land Stewart
Connell James 28 County 2nd Class
Curtain Mgt 29 City Ass Laundress
Callaghan Mary A 24 County 2nd Class
Coleman BGT 24 County 3rd Class
Casey Ellen 26 County Charge Att
Courtney Hannah 21 Kerry 3rd Class
Catalan Nora 23 County NigHt Att
Casey Kate 28 County 2nd Class
Coghlan Kate 25 County Night Att

D
Dwyer Henry 43 County Plumber
Dwyer Ptk 24 City Tailor
Desmond John 45 City Charge Attendant
Donovan Mary 24 County 2nd Class
Daly John 27 Night Att
Dwyer Henry 38 Plumber
Devlin Michael 26 Londonderry Bandmaster

F
Flynn Ptk 26 County 3rd Class
Foley Cors 21 County 3rd Class
Foley Timothy 47 County Charge Attendant
Forrest Julia 30 County Hospital Cook
Foley Mary 23 County 2nd Class
Foley Mgt 25 County 2nd Class
Flynn Kate 23 County 3rd Class
Fitzgerald Maggie 23 County Night attendant
Flynn Mary A 26 County 3rd Class
Foley Cornelius 60 Land Stewart
Foley Thomas 26 Land Stewart (out of employment)

G
Geaney Molly 20 County 3rd Class
Geraghty Bgt 34 City Charge Attendant
Gorman Ngt 25 County 2nd Class
Banning Kate 25 County 2nd Class
Geraghty Kathleen 21 County 2nd Class
Gregg John 44 Scotland. Clerk of Works
Gould Joseph 40. City. Engine man at Asylum

H
Howes Peter 30 County 2nd Class
Hennessy Ml 36 County 3rd Class
Healy Ptk 25 Tipperary 3rd Class
Hayes Thomas 28 County Charge Attendant
Hunter Francis 29 County Charge Attendant
Horgan Peter 25 County Night Attendant
Hartnett Nora 24 County Night Head Attendant
Hallihan Hannah 23 County 3rd Class
Hennessy Helena 22 County 3rd Class
Hurley Mgt 24 County 2nd Class
Hogan David 24. County Head Night Attendant

J
Jones Thomas 23 Kerry 3rd Class
Jackson Robert 31 London Attendant

K
Kelly Cors 28 City 3rd Class
Kelly John 25 County 3rd Class
Keeffe Nora 24 City Ass Laundress
Kinnefick May 27 City Charge Att

L
Lenihan John 24 County 3rd Class
Lawton Ml 26 County 3rd Class
Linton Thomas 24 Monaghan 2nd Class
Lynch John 26 County Night Att
Leyne Maude 26 County Hospital Nurse
Lynch May 42 County Charge Att
Langan Kate 30 Westmeath Night Attendant
Leary Daniel 31 City Fireman
Lehane Jerh 30 County 2nd Class Attendant
John Lynch 40 City. Living at 3 St James’s Square with his wife Kate (36) & 2 Daughters and 2 sons

M
Magner William 21 County 3rd Class Attendant
Maguire Samuel 21 County 3rd Class Attendant
Murphy John 22 County 3rd Class Attendant
Moynihan Maurice 27 Kerry 3rd Class Attendant
McCarthy Michael 26 County 3rd Class Attendant
Moynihan William 21 County 3rd Class Attendant
McCarthy Ptk 23 County 3rd Class Attendant
Murphy Timothy 43 County Night watchman
Murphy William F 27 City Head Attendant
Murray Cors 35 City Charge Attendant
Murphy Jerh J 26 County Hall Porter
Murphy Jerh 45 County Head Attendant CoI
Murphy Thomas 28 County 2nd Class Attendant
Murphy Ellen 40 County 3rd Class Attendant
Mahon Anastasia 24 Tipperary 3rd Class Attendant
McCarthy Kate 57 Berrings Charge Attendant
Murphy Ellen 40 County Charge Attendant
Murphy Nora 29 County Charge Attendant
Murphy Hester 23 County Charge Attendant
Murphy Maria 22 County 2nd Class Attendant
Murphy Jane 30 County Night Head Attendant
McSweeney Bridget 35 County Night Attendant
McCarthy Maggie 22 County 3rd Class Attendant
Martin Mary 62 City West Matron CoI
McNamara Mary 25 County 2nd Class Attendant
Murphy Ptk 26 City Attendant

N
Neill Kate 33 County 3rd Class

O
O’Leary Daniel 24. City 3rd Class Attendant
O’Keeffe Matthew 25. County 3rd Class Attendant
O’Sullivan Daniel 26 County Head Night Attendant
O’Sullivan Thomas 29 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Farrell James 28 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Shea Jerh 29 Sligo 2nd Class Attendant
O’Shea Timothy 29 County 3rd Class Attendant
O’Reilly Thomas 35 City Charge Attendant
O’Callaghan John 26 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Shea Bartholomew 30 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Sullivan Michael 28 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Connell Daniel 27 City Night Attendant
O’Brien Julia 25 County Charge Attendant
O’Driscoll Ellen 30 County Charge Attendant
O’Leary Ellen 56 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Brien Mary 50 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Sullivan Mary T 23 County 2nd Class Attendant
O’Reilly Christina 21 County 3rd Class Attendant
O’Callaghan Maggie 26 County 3rd Class Attendant
O’Brien Ellie 26 County 3rd Class Attendant

P
Peary Michael 23 County 3rd Class Attendant
Perot Susannah 25 County 3rd Class Attendant

Q
Quinlan Maurice 26 County Charge Attendant

R
Reynolds Thomas 40 County Land Steward
Rogers Michael 31 City Charge Attendant
Riordan Cornelius 27 County Night Attendant
Reynolds Catherine 27 County Night Attendant
Riordan Minnie 27 County 3rd Class Attendant
Rogers Bridget 34 County Charge Attendant
Ryan Mary 24 County 3rd Class Attendant
Ryan Kate 24 County Night Attendant
Ryan Ellen 27 County Charge Attendant

S
Spillane William 29 County 2nd Class Attendant
Sheehan Cornelius 32 County 3rd Class Attendant
Smithwick Thomas 22 County 3rd Class Attendant
Sullivan Daniel 22 County 3rd Class Attendant
Shannahan Edward 56 Westmeath Charge Attendant
Sullivan Hannah 24 County Junior Assistant Laundress
Shepherd Margaret 27 County
Sullivan Ellen 29 County Charge Attendant
Shepherd Georgina 25 County 2nd Class Attendant
Shannahan Maggie 23 City 3rd Class Attendant
Shiel Anne 22 Dublin 3rd Class Attendant
Sullivan Mary K 25 County 2nd Class Attendant

T
Twomey Hanora 23 Donoghmore 3rd Class Attendant
Twomey Anne 21 County 3rd Class Attendant
Twomey Ellen 24 County 2nd Class Attendant
Twomey Mary 24 County 2nd Class Attendant
Tolerton Elizabeth R 42 City Asylum Matron

V
Victory Margaret 46 Westmeath In Charge of Lodge at Asylum (widow)

W
Walsh Hannah 21 Charleville 3rd Class Attendant
Walsh Kate 22 County Charge Attendant
Walsh Maria 21 City 3rd Class Attend

1902

Rev Fr O’Regan 1.12.1902 RC Chaplain

James Noonan; Appointed 11.11.1902; Promoted 8.5.1917

Timothy Cotter; Appointed 23.3.1902; Promoted 8.5.1917

John McCarthy. Appointed 24.1.1902. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 11.11.1902. PromotedCharge Attendant 17.7.1923. Superannuated 19.8.1930.

Cornelius Mullane. Appointed 1.1.1902. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Promoted Night Duty 1.4.1907. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.1907. Cornelius married Anna Maria O’Donovan – who was also on the staff. Her father was Patrick – a farmer. Cornelius father was Denis, a farmer. They were married in the North Cathedral – witnessed by Raymond Kirby and Katherine Hayes. They lived in a house at Horgan’s buildings. What should have been a very happy stage of their lives turned to tragedy when Cornelius died 6.4.1910. The cause of death was pernicious anaemia – he had been in hospital for 25 days prior to his death.

John Holly. Appointed 2.11.1902. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.1903. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.6.1907. Medico- Psychological Society Certificate. Head Attendant 16.6.1931. Superannuated 16.3.1937. Married Mary Anne O’Callaghan who was also on the staff on 29.7.1906 at the North Cathedral. His father is Francis, a labourer. Her father is John, also a labourer.

Jeremiah Browne. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant. Resigned 1.6.1904 to go Private Nursing in England

Eugene Downing. Appointed 3.5.1902. Temporary Attendant. Left immediately

Thomas Higgins. Appointed 8.4.1902. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. Resigned 13.4.1904

John Sullivan. Appointed 15.1.1902. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 10.2.1903. Resigned 16.6.1904. To join the Prison Service

Cornelius Twomey. Appointed 8.3.1902. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant

George McIntosh. Appointed 14.3.1902. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant – not suitable

Cordelia Creedon. Appointed 20.3.1902.21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 11.7.1907. Left 15.3.1910 – required at home

Mary Murphy. Appointed 20.2.1902. Temporary Attendant. Left 26.4.1902.

Ellen Murphy. Appointed 31.3.1902. 22 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 1.1904. Not strong enough

Margaret Scott. Appointed 3.4.1902. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 4.1910. Left to get married 19.4.1912. Married Daniel O’Leary – also on the staff – 5 September 1915. Her address is 14 Sunday’s Well avenue. Her father, deceased, was James – a farmer. Daniel’s father was a dairy farmer. They were married in the North Cathedral, witnessed by Michael O’Leary and Margaret O’Brien

Mary Ryan. Appointed 9.4.1902. Temporary Attendant. Left 11.4.1902

Maria Walsh. Appointed 21.4.1902. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 10.7.1902. Did not wish to remain

Mary Cronin. Appointed 24.4.1902. 22 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 12.1902. Vacancy filled

Kate Harte. Appointed 28.4.1904. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 10.8.1902. Not strong enough

Mary Mulcahy. Appointed 26.4.1902. 23 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 9.1908. Pension 16.8.1914

Bridget Bluett. Appointed 17.4.1902. Temporary Attendant. Left 30. 6. 1902. Owing to her brothers illness

1903

John O’Connor. Appointed 24.5.1903. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary

Patrick Walsh. Appointed 10.2.1903. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned due to ill health 15.4.1905. Taken on again 7.7.1905. Medico- Psychological Association Cert. promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.7.1906. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.5.1924. Acting Land Steward 1946. Left 21.5.1949.

John Mahony. Appointed 10.2.1903. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.5.1905. Resigned to go to England Nursing.

Michael Farrell. Appointed 10.2.1903. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 6.1.1905. Left to go to England Private Nursing 20.7.1905.

Cornelius Healy. Appointed 10.2.1903. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.1.1911 but would not take it as he had extra money from cleaning boilers in his own time which he could not retain if promoted to 2nd Class Attendant. He considers that he is as well off remaining as he is at present. Promoted Charge Attendant 16.7.1923. Appointed Fireman 21.2.1937. Superannuated 7.4.1947.

Thomas Callaghan. Appointed 10.2.1903. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant- left after a few days.

John Callaghan. Appointed 10.2.1903. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left after a few days.

James Daly. Appointed 12.5.1903. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 8.10.1903

Cornelius Leonard. Appointed 12.5.1903. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 31.8.190

Denis Dunlea. Appointed 12.5.1903. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 1.9.1904.

Edmund Roche. Appointed 12.5.1903. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 11.3.1904.

Phillip Dinan. Appointed 12.5.1903. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.8.1905. Resigned 31.3.1906

John Twomey. Appointed 12.5.1903. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 15.6.1907. 2nd Class Attendant. Left November 1907

Thomas Burke. Appointed 18.2.1903. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 12.5.1903 to 2nd Class Attendant. Resigned 8.6.1905 to go Private Nursing in England

Michael O’Donovan. Appointed 12.5.1907. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Association Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.9.1919. Acting Charge Attendant 30.11.1925. Promoted Charge Attendant 18.9.1926. Superannuated 21.11.1933.

Thomas Carroll. Appointed 12.3.1903. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 10.5.1904 to go to America.
William Daly. 28 years.3rd Class Attendant

Patrick Roynane. Appointed 27.3.1903.25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.5.1905. Left 16.4.1916

Henry Oliver. Appointed 18.5.1903. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 9.11.1907 to 2nd Class Attendant. Died 9.8.1937.

Michael Buckley. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant

James Donovan 12.5.1903. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 7.2.1915. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 26.6.1928. Superannuated 17.7.1934.

James Murnane. 30 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left.

Timothy Coughlan 2.7.1903. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 27.12. 1903.

Bryan Smith. Appointed 15.8.1903. 25 years. Night Attendant. Resigned 8.3.1904 – ill health

John Walpole. Appointed 25.7.1903. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.9.1909. Died 12.1.1921. Aged 43 – Died from cancer. His brother was killed in WWI in 1917.

Charles McCarthy. Appointed 15.10.1903. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 26.7.1909 to go Private Nursing in England

Daniel Leary. Appointed 15.7.1903. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 1.7.1904. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.8.1912. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted Laundryman 17.4.1917. Superannuated 22.2.1934.

Michael Ryan. Appointed 22.7.1903. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 21.2.1995. Died 4.7.1907.

Daniel Riordan. 3.3.1903. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 29.3.1905 to go to California

1904

The dangers associated with the job is highlighted in the Report of the Inspector of Lunatics for 1905 (dealing with 1904);

A very serious outbreak of enteric fever (typhoid) occurred in the Cork Asylum during the autumn and winter. No less than 100 patients having been attacked. There were 12 cases among the male staff and nine among the female staff. Eighteen patients died as well as two staff, one male and one female.

from Minutes of House Committee – 1904

Michael Riordan. Appointed 24.6.1904. 20 years. Promoted 20.11.1911. Retired 19.11.1929

Michael Tobin. Appointed 8.3.1904. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 2.7.1905

Denis O’Mahony. Appointed 8.4.1904. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. 1.5.1905 passed Medico-Psychological Association Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.1.1915. Promoted Charge Attendant 15.8.1927. Died 20.5.1944

Cornelius O’Leary. Appointed 8.3.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 28.3.1906

Jeremiah Creedon. Appointed 8.3.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 21.5.1904.

Cornelius Lynch. Appointed 8.3.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.9.1909. on 22 November 1909, Con was suspended when the RMS reported that 37 pounds of onions, the property of the Board of Management , were discovered in his press. Left 20.9. 1910

John Keane. Appointed 8.3.1904. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 9.11.1909. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.5.1924. Superannuated 20.4.1933.

William Foley. Appointed 8.3.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 20.6.1907 to go Private Nursing to England

Daniel O’Connor. Appointed 8.3.1903. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 11.7. 1927

Cornelius Murphy. Appointed 8.3.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 30.3.1907 to go to America.

John Begley. Appointed 8.3.1904. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 14.12.1904

Michael O’Flaherty. Appointed 8.3.1904. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 29.8.1904.

Patrick Murphy. Appointed 8.3.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 10.3.1908 to go to America.

Francis Hayes. Appointed 8.3.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned ill-health

Daniel Coleman. Appointed 8.3.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 3.11.1904

Jeremiah Healy. Appointed 8.3.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 5.1.1905 to join English Police Force

Denis Sullivan 3.5.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.1.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.8.1930. Superannuated 18.8.1936

Daniel Crowley. Appointed 30.1.1904. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 17.10.1904.

PJ O’Callaghan. Appointed 12.5.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 20.8.1905

Michael Riordan. Appointed 21.6.1904. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.1.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.11.1929. Superannuated 18.5.1937.

Patrick McDonnell. Appointed 27.6.1904. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 1.2.1906. Resigned

John O’Leary. Appointed 4.7.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Died

Jeremiah Ryan. Appointed 18.7.1904. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go Private Nursing in England 15.4.1907.

John Regan. Appointed 18.7.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed Gardiner 16.7.1907. Appointed Hall Porter 15.5.1917. Pension 1.11.1941

John Coughlan. Appointed 24.8.1904. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico-Psychological Association Cert. Promoted 2rd Class Attendant 9.11.1907. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 18.8.1925. Superannuated 7.3.1947.

Jeremiah Callaghan. Appointed 27.8.1904. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left

John Moynihan. Appointed 1.9.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Left

Timothy Twomey. Appointed 7.10.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 19.9.1905.

Michael O’Sullivan. Appointed 7.10.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.8.1915. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.8.1930. Superannuated 12.11.1938.

Stephen O’Sullivan. Appointed 8.11.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 20.2.1905.

Patrick Nolan. Appointed 11.11.1904. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 4.3.1908.

Daniel Collins. Appointed 11.11.1904. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 19.10.1906 ill-health

Patrick Tynan. Appointed 13.11.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 18.11.1904

Patrick Kennifick. Appointed 14.11.1904. 3rd Class Attendant- I’ll-health

Patrick Twomey. Appointed 16.11.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 5.12.1905

Daniel Healy. Appointed 16.11.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Left- refused to go on duty in M3X Ward.

William Herlihy. Appointed 16.11.1904. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 18.9.1905.

Walter Terry. Appointed 21.11.1904. 3rd Class Bandsman. Resigned 18.9.1905 Resigned 5.2.1905.

William Murphy. Appointed 22.11.1904. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 29. 12.1905

John Fahy. Appointed 25.11.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Left after 3 days.

John Cronin. Appointed 5.12.1904. 2nd Class Attendant.

John Mahony. Appointed 29.11.1904. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant Temporary. 17.6.1910 resigned to go home farming.

John Connell. Appointed 5.12.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 28.1.1905

Cornelius Condon. Appointed 10.12.1904. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 7.5.1907 to go to America

Patrick Daly. Appointed 10.12.1904. 3rd Class Attendant.

John Crowley. Appointed 12.12.1904. 3rd Class Attendant.

John Donovan.12.12.1904. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 2.9.1906

Hannah Kelleher. Appointed 15.3.1904. Died North Infirmary Fever Hospital 27.11.1904

Julia Lenihan. Appointed 15.3.1904. Left 7.1904- wanted at home

Kate Twomey. Appointed 15.3.1904. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.9.1908. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.2.1915. Left to get married 26.8.1916. Kate married John O’Brien – also on the staff – on 25 June 1916. Her father, John, was a farmer. His husbands father was also a farmer. The wedding was witnessed by Patrick O’Brien and Ellen Ryan.

Ellen Nugent. Appointed 6.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Sent to Youghal Asylum 2.5.1904

Ellen Barry. Appointed 12.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left to get married 29.5.1906

Minnie Carroll. Appointed 14.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Sent to Youghal Asylum 21.5.1904

Hannah Coakley. Appointed 28.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 14.11.1904

Bridget Allen. Appointed 31.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left to enter the Prison Service

Ellen O’Brien. Appointed 15.6.1904. Temporary Attendant

Julia Cronin. Appointed 27.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. 23 years. Left July 1904 – not strong enough

Julia O’Connor. Appointed 14.6.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 2.7.1904 – did not like the work

Ellen Crowley. Appointed 12.7.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 13.9.1905 – obtained other employment

Ellen O’Brien. Appointed 9.8.1904. Left 1.3.1905 – ill-health

Lily Vaughan. Appointed 15.8.1904. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 7.1915. Pension 15.8.1938

Barbara Bracken. Temporary Attendant. Left 25.10.1904. Not in good health

Kate Hayes. Appointed 20.8.1904. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 21.11.1908. Left to get married 3.1.1910

Anne Concannon. Appointed 23.8.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.12.1904

Mary O’Leary. Appointed 24.8.1904. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1911. Left to get married 20.11.1915. Married Michael McCarthy from Aghinagh. He was a Blacksmith as was his father. Mary’s father was a farmer. They were married in North Cathedral, witnessed by Jeremiah McCarthy and Nora O’Leary.

Lizzie Riordan. Appointed 31.8.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left after Typhoid Fever 17.1.1905

Mrs Dowling. Left in December 1904, daughter came instead.

Martha Dowling 5.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.11.1908 – did not like ward work

Ellen Story. Appointed 5.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 17.1.1905. Did not feel strong enough

Nan Collins. Appointed 5.11.1904. 24 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.9.1911. Left to get married 31.1.1916

Hannah Magner. Appointed 8.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 12.1905

Kate Gowan. Appointed 11.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left. Did not like the work

Nora Bluett. Appointed 13.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left not strong enough

Hannah Ross. Appointed 14.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left same day, did not like the work

Mary Joy. Appointed 15.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 28.12.1904

Nora Buckley. Appointed 15.11.1904. Left 2.12.1904. Got another position

Mary Murphy. Appointed 15.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 19.1.1905

Lizzie Kelleher. Appointed 15.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Absent without Leave 1.1.1905

Nora Sullivan. Appointed 21.11.1904. Left 22.12.1904.

Kate Motherway. Appointed 22.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.4.1910 – entering a Convent

Ellie O’Keeffe. Appointed. 22.11.1904. Temporary Attendant.

Bridget O’Leary. Appointed 12.12.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 24.1.1905

Anne Gould. Appointed 14.12.1904. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.11.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 9.1916. Pension 19.6.1922

Julia Phelan. Appointed 19.12.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left to go to America 11.2.1905.

1905

Denis Sullivan. Appointed 3.5.1905. Promoted 20.1.1911. Retired 19.4.1930

Michael Sullivan. Appointed 21.1.1905. Promoted 8.8.1915. Resigned 19.8.1930

Patrick O’Keeffe. Appointed 18.7.1905. Promoted 8.8.1918.

Hannah Kelleher. Appointed 15.3.1904. Died North Infirmary Fever Hospital 27.11.1904

Julia Lenihan. Appointed 15.3.1904. Left 7.1904- wanted at home

Kate Twomey. Appointed 15.3.1904. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.9.1908. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.2.1915. Left to get married 26.8.1916

Ellen Nugent. Appointed 6.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Sent to Youghal Asylum 2.5.1904

Ellen Barry. Appointed 12.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left to get married 29.5.1906

Minnie Carroll. Appointed 14.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Sent to Youghal Asylum 21.5.1904

Hannah Coakley. Appointed 28.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 14.11.1904

Bridget Allen. Appointed 31.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left to enter the Prison Service

Ellen O’Brien. Appointed 15.6.1904. Temporary Attendant

Julia Cronin. Appointed 27.5.1904. Temporary Attendant. 23 years. Left July 1904 – not strong enough

Julia O’Connor. Appointed 14.6.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 2.7.1904 – did not like the work

Ellen Crowley. Appointed 12.7.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 13.9.1905 – obtained other employment

Ellen O’Brien. Appointed 9.8.1904. Left 1.3.1905 – ill-health

Lily Vaughan. Appointed 15.8.1904. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 7.1915. Pension 15.8.1938

Barbara Bracken. Temporary Attendant. Left 25.10.1904. Not in good health

Kate Hayes. Appointed 20.8.1904. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 21.11.1908. Left to get married 3.1.1910

Anne Concannon. Appointed 23.8.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.12.1904

Mary O’Leary. Appointed 24.8.1904. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1911. Left to get married 20.11.1915.

Lizzie Riordan. Appointed 31.8.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left after Typhoid Fever 17.1.1905

Mrs Dowling. Left in December 1904, daughter came instead.

Martha Dowling 5.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.11.1908 – did not like ward work

Ellen Story. Appointed 5.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 17.1.1905. Did not feel strong enough

Nan Collins. Appointed 5.11.1904. 24 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.9.1911. Left to get married 31.1.1916

Hannah Magner. Appointed 8.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 12.1905

Kate Gowan. Appointed 11.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left. Did not like the work

Hannah Ross. Appointed 14.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left same day, did not like the work

Mary Joy. Appointed 15.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 28.12.1904

Nora Buckley. Appointed 15.11.1904. Left 2.12.1904. Got another position

Mary Murphy. Appointed 15.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 19.1.1905

Lizzie Kelleher. Appointed 15.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Absent without Leave 1.1.1905

Nora Sullivan. Appointed 21.11.1904. Left 22.12.1904.

Kate Motherway. Appointed 22.11.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.4.1910 – entering a Convent

Ellie O’Keeffe. Appointed. 22.11.1904. Temporary Attendant.

Bridget O’Leary. Appointed 12.12.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left 24.1.1905

Anne Gould. Appointed 14.12.1904. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.11.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 9.1916. Pension 19.6.1922

Julia Phelan. Appointed 19.12.1904. Temporary Attendant. Left to go to America 11.11.20

Patrick McCarthy Appointed 19.5.1906. Promoted to Charge attendant 4.12.1923

David Browne; Appointed 19.5.1906.

Michael Pomphrett. Appointed 21.2.1905. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.5.1906. Resigned 2.2.1909 to go Private Nursing in Brazil.

Garrett Lehane. Appointed 1.5.05. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant

David Collins. Appointed 20.6.1905. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 25.10.1905 to join Police Force

Florence Crowley. Appointed 18.7.1905. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 19.4.1906 to go to America

Timothy C Hurley. Appointed 18.7.1905. 29 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 18.1.1906

John O’Donnell. Appointed 18.7.1905. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 2.8.1906

Patrick Keeffe. Appointed 18.7.1905. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.1915. Promoted Special Charge Attendant 19.11.1930. Superannuated 19.8.1937.

Cornelius Cronin. Appointed 18.8.1905. 27 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Night 1908. Resigned 15.10.1910 to go to England Private Nursing

Leo Anthony. Appointed 3.9.1905. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 30.1.1906

Anne Concannon. Appointed 2.2.1905. Temporary Attendant. Left 22.6.1905.

Ellen Murphy. Appointed 13.3.1905. Temporary Attendant. Left to get married 12.7.1906.

Kate Sweeney. Appointed 25.3.1905. Temporary Attendant. Left 2.6.1905.

Helena Barry. Appointed 28. 3.1905. Trained Nurse. Deputy Assistant Matron 18.2.1920. Assistant Matron 21.3.1927. Matron 15.12.1931. Died 12.1945

Josephine McCarthy. Appointed 19.6.1905. Temporary Attendant. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.11.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 26.6.1920. Pension 19.7.1926

Margaret Hourihan. Appointed 31.7.1905. Temporary Attendant.

Hannah Murphy. Appointed 14.11.1905. Left 16.12.1905.

Kate Sweeney. Appointed 21.11.1905. Left 15.1

1906

December; “… plum pudding for patients and staff as well as sweet bread and the best Cork Cured Ham..”

Death of RMS Dr Woods in August – we are also told that his daughter had died in May the same year

Dr James Fitzgerald RMS 1906 – 1922. Appointed 15.1.1907. Former RMO Carlow Asylum.

Staff of Carlow District Lunatic Asylum (around turn of the century) with whom Dr. Fitzgerald would have worked.

John O’Callaghan. Appointed 2.3.1906. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 17.4.1906

William Dunlea. Appointed 15.3.1906. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 10.3.1906.

John McSweeney. Appointed 14.3.1906. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 20.4.1906

Michael Ring. Appointed 14.3.1906. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 10.3.1906.

Cornelius Cronin. Appointed 19.3.1906. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 1.10.1906. Resigned to go to America

Patrick Regan. Appointed 21.3.1906. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. 30.7. 1907 went out on his afternoon Thursday and did not return.

Henry Perrot. Appointed 30.3.1906. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 26.3.1907 – very satisfactory Attendant

Daniel O’Sullivan. Appointed 2.4.1996. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 20.4.1906.

Timothy Cullinane. Appointed 17.4.1906. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. promoted Night Attendant 1.1.1907. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.1.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.7.1927. Superannuated 21.9.1937

Patrick Kelly. Appointed 17.4.1906. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 19.11.1907.

Michael O’Connell. Appointed 12.4.1906. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 11.2.1908

David Thornhill. Appointed 12.4.1906. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 1.1.1910 to go Private Nursing in England

Patrick McCarthy. Appointed 19.5.1906. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Special Charge Attendant 3.3.1931. Died 29.1.1944

Michael O’Keeffe. Appointed 19.5.1906. Promoted Night Attendant 1908. Left 25.3.1909.

David Crowley. Appointed 19.5.1906. 29 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.3.1907. Superannuated 15.6.1937

Henry Rice. Appointed 6.7.1906. 26 years.3rd Class Attendant. Left 10.7.1906.

Patrick O’Sullivan. Appointed 19.5.1906. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 19.6.1906.

Cornelius Collins. Appointed 19.5.1906. 3rd Class Attendant. 26 years. Left 19.6.1906.

James Carey. Appointed 1.10.1906. 3rd Class Attendant. Retired 12.2.1909.

Ellie O’Brien. Appointed 3.2.1906. Temporary Attendant

Christina Paul. Appointed 3.3.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 7.5.1906 – entering a Convent

Hannah Murphy. Appointed 5.3.1903. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 3.1912. Left to get married 20.11.1916

Julia Hegarty. Appointed 7.3.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 24.6.1906 – taking up other work

Ellie O’Brien. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 5.10.1910 – entering a Convent

Mary Downing. Appointed 12.3.1906. Dr. McCarthy’s cook. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant. Left to get married 8.10.1911

Catherine Lenihan. Appointed 14.3.1906. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1912. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.3.1915. Left to get married 20.9.1923

Margaret Hourihan. Appointed 24.4.1906. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 1.7.1912. Going to become a Nun

Mollie Donovan. Appointed 8.5.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 20.3.1907. Wanted to go home

Mary Sheehan. Appointed 4.5.1906. Left 21.4.1909. Going to London to become a Hospital Trained Nurse

Lizzie Mullane. Appointed 5.5.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 20.6.1906. Ill-health

Anne Marie Donovan. Appointed 7.5.1906. 26 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 2.5.1908

Hannah Holly. Appointed 14.5.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left to go to America 9.10.1907.

Hannah O’Connor. Appointed 21.5.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 11.7.1906 – secured other work

Kate O’Brien. Appointed 23.5.1906. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.7.1913. Left to go to England 11.5.1914. 12th August 1909, the RMS wrote to the Inspector of Lunatics to inform him that Kate had contracted Enteric Fever and had been removed to the Cork Fever Hospital.

Mary A Sullivan. Appointed 24.5.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.7.1909 entering a Convent

?? Sullivan. Appointed 11.6.1906. Temporary Attendant. Going to be trained as a Hospital Nurse

Mary Mahony. Appointed 28.6.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 11.7.1906

Mary Cronin. Appointed 11.6.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 28.4.1910 to go to America

Polly Motherway. Appointed 30.6.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left – did not feel strong enough

Lizzie Glover. Appointed 20.7.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 9.7.1906 – did not like the Asylum

Julia McEwan. Appointed 9.7.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left to go to Australia 10.10.1907.

Kate Bevan. Appointed 9.7.1906. Left 16.7.1906. Would not stay – afraid of the Patients

Evelyn Connell. Appointed 14.7.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left July 1906.

Ellen Herlihy. Appointed 18.7.1906. Left December 1906 – going to be trained as a midwife

L Mullane. Appointed 23.7.1906. Left 14.10.1908 – ill-health

Julia Cronin. Appointed 14.8.1906. Left 16.3.1907. Did not like Asylum life.

Mary O’Keeffe. Appointed 10.10.1906. Temporary Attendant. Left 6.12.1907. Wanted at home

1907

15th May 1907.

A letter sent into the board from the female attendants seeking an extension of liberty and granting a pass for the opera. The Committee agreed with the RMS that the hour of return was quite late enough and the conditions laid down by him regarding a special pass to the opera were reasonable and proper. However, different rules applied to the married male attendants – on the 13th November an application for married attendants to get an extra nights leave was left in the hands of the RMS. Also the Ration Allowance was turned into a monetary payment and Attendants were allowed to go home for their meals provided they could find accommodation close enough to the Asylum to allow them to do so.

Names recorded in minute book as starting in 1906 but not in Register of Male Attendants

John Regan
John Lenihan
Timothy Cotter
John Corcoran

John O’Keeffe. Appointed 16.7.1907 – left to go to England 25th March 1909. Letter to RMS seeking allowance for uniforms – his address in 1909 is The Flower House, Southend, Catford.

Cornelius Ryan; Appointed 26.7.1907. Promoted 1.8. 1922

William Hurst. Appointed 11.8.1907. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left to join army 18.12.1914. Resumed again 23.2.1919. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 4.12.1923. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 2.1.1933 to fill vacancy of John Crowley. Pension 7.10.1941. William married Kate Hayes of 36 Cathedral WAlk, on Jan 9 1910. His father Thomas, was a wardmaster, while her father was a farmer. The wedding was celebrated by Fr Thomas Hurst and witnessed by Patrick Carroll and Amalie Hayes.

Thomas Foley. Appointed 9.2.1907. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 23.12.1907.

John Riordan. Appointed 22.2.1907. 3rd Class Attendant. 29 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.1.1923. Died 15.2.1925 at 5.45am

John O’Mahony. Appointed 16.3.1907. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 7.4.1908.

John Falvey. Appointed 16.3.1907. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 22.8.1907.

Michael J Barry. Appointed 16.4.1907. 36 years. Land Steward

Jeremiah O’Sullivan. Appointed 21.6.1907. 30 years. Storekeeper

Edmund Roycroft. Appointed 21.7.1907. 24 years. Assistant Clerk

John Finnegan. Appointed 19.3.1907. 3rd Class Attendant. 24 years. Left 6.7.1911.

Cornelius Duggan. Appointed 21.3.1907. Resigned 2.4.1908.

James Hickey. Appointed 27.3.1907. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 11.2.1910 to go to an English Asylum

Denis Mahony Jnr. Appointed 27.3.1907. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 11.7.1907.

Michael Riordan. Appointed 18.6.1907. 25 years. Blacksmith. Died 21.10. 1920

Denis Finnegan. Appointed 11.7.1907. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 2.5.1909.

John Kennifick. Appointed 24.7.1907. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to England 21.12.1912. Taken on again 1.12 1913.

Cornelius Regan. Appointed 26.7.1907. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico-Psychological Exam. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.8.1922. 21.12.1932 to be transferred to A8 on the resignation of present a Charge M McCarthy. 16.1.1934 Head Night. Retired 19.8.1937. Cornelius married Anastasia O’Farrell on 20 June 1922. She was living in Blarney Street. Her father, Michael, was a farmer. His father Timothy, deceased, was also a farmer. The wedding took place in North Cathedral and was witnessed by Cornelius O’Mahony and Bridget O’Farrell.

John Carroll. Appointed 24.7.1907. 29 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left to go to England Private Nursing

Patrick Carroll. Appointed 21.8.1907. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Assistant Carpenter. Died 27.7. 1944

Edmond O’Connor. Appointed 25.7.1907. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 6.7.1910 getting a position in a sanatorium

Kate Crowley. Appointed 13.2.1907. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.1.1913. Pension 19.4.1918.

Kate Heery. Appointed 5.2.1907. Left 26.2.1907. Not strong enough

Madge Holly. Appointed 6.2.1907. Temporary Attendant. Died

Mary O’Connor. Appointed 6.1907. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.10.1913. Pension 19.2.1918

Sarah Ryan. Appointed 8.2.1907. Resigned 28.10.1908

Mary Stuart . Appointed 18.2.1907. 50 years. Hospital Cook. . Resigned 18.11.1913

Emily Baldwin. Appointed 28.2.1907. 25 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 15.1.1914. Promoted Charge Attendant 13.4.1918. But would not remain in charge. Retired November 1923

Margaret Ryan. Appointed 2.3.1997. Temporary Attendant. Left 16.3.1910 going to live with her sister

Eleanor Downing. Appointed 15.3. 1907. 26 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.4.1915. Died 22.8.1918.

Julia Coleman. Appointed 16.3.1907. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.2.1914. Left 14.9.1920 to get trained as a Hospital Nurse

Lizzie Mullane. Appointed 19.3.1907. L21.6.1910 to get another appointment

Ellen McCarthy. Appointed 2.3.1907. 21 years. AMAS servant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 3.1.1910. Left to get married 7.10.1911

Alina O’Connor. Appointed 20.3.1907. Left 20.10.1911 going to set up a business

Julia Cotter. Appointed 22.3.1907. 24 years. Left 20.6.1914 – wanted at home

Hannah Connor. Appointed 10.10.1907. Left ill-health 31.12.1997.

Nora McAulliffe. Appointed 11.9.1907. Left to go nursing in England

L O’Shea. Appointed 16.10.1907. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.1910. Promoted Charge Attendant in dining room . Pension 24.11.1938

Julia Fitzgerald. Appointed 5.11.1907. 19 years. Left 20.6.1916 – entering a Convent.

Nora Herlihy. Appointed 21.12.1907. Left to get married 21.4.1909

1908

Thomas Ward. Appointed 18.2.1908. 24 years.3rd Class Attendant. 29.6.1909 resigned to fill another vacancy in the city. 25.9.1914 taken on again by RMS. Left 1.12.1913 to go Private Nursing in England

James Connolly. Appointed 12.2.1908. 21 years.3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 20.6.1911 to go to England Private Nursing

James Darcy. Appointed 18.3.1908. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico-Psychological Association Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.4.1923. Promoted Charge Attendant 16.2.1928. Nursing Council of Ireland Exam. Superannuated 8.8.1941.

Michael Hogan. Appointed 22.4.1908. 21 years.3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.5.1925. Promoted Charge Attendant 21.2.1933. Promoted Night Fireman and Watchman 19.5.1942

Daniel Crowley. Appointed 23.4.1908. 30 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left to go to England Private Nursing.

Michael O’Brien. Appointed 23.4.1908. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 20.4.1909.

Timothy Brosnahan. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 4.4.1911 to go Private Nursing in England

James Rourke. 22 years. Left

Daniel Long. Appointed June 1908. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.3.1924. P1st Class Attendant 1.3.1933. Died 30.6.1937

Eugene Sweeney. Appointed 8.4.1908. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.6.1924. Superannuated 18.8.1936.

Julia Healy – Innishannon

Hannah McCarthy – Clonakilty

1909

Letter from RMS – to the RIC Sergeant at Common’s Road. 7. June 1909

Dear Sir

I beg to call to your attention to the practice of persons who assemble outside the walls of the north west gate on Sunday afternoons and throw articles over the wallto the patients and request you will be so good to send a constable occasionally.

JJ Cashman RMS

William Roche. Appointed 7.6.1909. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.6.1924. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Promoted Head Attendant 9.6.1939.

Eugene Sweeney. Appointed 29.4.1909. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.6.1924

John Crowley Jnr. Appointed 26.7.1909. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.6.1924

John Murphy. Appointed April 1909. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Went out on ordinary leave 22.9.1909 and did not come back.

William Field. Appointed 2.7.1909. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 17.9.1910

William Barrett. Appointed 6.7.1909. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to America 26.4.1911

James O’Grady. Appointed 16.7.1909. 3rd Class Attendant. 22 years. Left 20.9.1910.

James Connell. Appointed 19.7.1909. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to England Private Nursing 10.3.1914

John Crowley. Appointed 26.7.1909. 22 years.3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.6.1924. Medico- Psychological Association Cert. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 29.7.1933. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Promoted Charge Attendant 17.10.1933. Superannuated 26.8.1943.

Eugene Prendergast. Appointed 6.10.1909. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to America 15.4.192

Julia Magner. Appointed 26.4.1909. 22 years. Left to get married 21.22.1912

Ellen Douglas. Appointed 29.4.1909. AMS servant. Ward Duty 7.10.1911. Hospital Cook 2.2.1914. Left to get married 19.2.1921

Margaret O’Connor. Appointed 3.5.1909. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.2.1914. Charge Attendant Laundry 3.11.1920. Prelim 1927. Final 1928. Charge Attendant dining room May 1921. Head Night Attendant 7.6.1930. Head Day Attendant 7.1931. Resigned 21.9.1937

Cecilia Travers. Appointed 19.6.1909. Left 12.7.1909 did not like Asylum Work

Julia Healy. Appointed 29.6.1909. 21 years. Left 19.4.1916

Hannah McCarthy. Appointed 30.6.1909. 22 years. Left to get married 26.9.1916

Bridie Clancy. Appointed 30.6.1909. Left 30.10.1909 Ill-health

Anne Hawkes. Appointed 17.7.1909. 23 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.3.1915. Promoted Charge Attendant 5.1919. Left to get married 3.5.1922

Mary Hedderman. Appointed 20.7.1909. 23 years. Left 2.8.1910. Did not like Asylum Work

Mary Cahill. Appointed 29.10.1909. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.3.1915. Promoted Charge Attendant at Laundry 5.1921. Promoted Charge Attendant F7 15.8.1922. Prelim 1925. Final 1926. Resigned 17.6.1941

Mary Murphy. Enniskeane. Appointed 30.10.1909. 20 years. Left 31.8.1915

Mary Kew. Appointed 5.11.1909. 22 years. Left 1.12.1914

Hannah Cronin. Appointed 31.12.1909. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.3.1915. Laundry 2.1920. Promoted Charge Attendant F6 5.1920. Charge Attendant F8 23.2.1922. Died 27.2.1935. Hannah was well connected because the Lord Mayor of Cork – the Right Honourable Thomas Donovan, wrote to the RMS on 17 Jan 1909 seeking a job for Hannah.

1910

In 1910 the hours of duty for staff at the (then called) Cork District Lunatic Asylum were as follows;

Day Attendants; 1st of March to 30th September. 6am to 8pm
October 1st to 28th February. 6.30am to 8pm.
On one night each week (Amusement Night), staff remain on duty until 9.30pm
One afternoon off each week from 3pm to 10pm and every 3rd Sunday off from 11am to 10pm.
14 days annual leave.
Number of hours per week 86 and a half.

Night Attendants; one night off each week. Number of hours per week = 71

All married men get out every night

Letter from Resident Medical Superintendent of Cork District Lunatic Asylum to Ms Hannah Bowles, Clogheen, Co. Cork

14th June 1910

Madam,
I regret to learn that your goat has again been trespassing on the Asylum property. This is to let you know that in future, on every occasion that trespass is made, the Asylum solicitor will be instructed to take action.

Dr JJ Fitzgerald; RMS

Passed Exams; not in Register of Male Attendants but recorded in Minute 18 Jan 1910

John Cotter – Dunmanway
John Deasy – Bandon
John McCarthy Courtmacsherry
James O’Brien – 9 Eason’s Ave, Cork
John Looney – Coachford
T Walsh – Riverstown
John Shine – Drawbridge /street Cork
John Shannahan – Vicarstown
Charles O’Shea – Carriganima
John Gormley – Dunmanway
Edward Gilmartin – Sunday’s Well
Michael Shannahan – Richmond Hill, Cork
Mary Anne O’Brien – Killeagh
Christina McDonnell – Sutton’s Buildings

Trade Union activity was just beginning in the Cork Asylum. Michael Rogers was the Secretary. On 22nd of October he wrote to local Members of Parliament

“At a general meeting of the staff of the above, it was unanimously resolved that in consequence of our ever increasing responsibilities, together with the excessively long and trying hours of duty, of the mental and physical strain appertaining to our daily routine with practically no opportunities of precuring any recreation or relaxation after our day’s duty s performed, many of us are too fatigued to spend even half an hour in the bosom of our families before retiring. Again the risks of accidents and many other (indecipherable) to our daily work. we therefore respectfully solicit the sympathy and support of all the Irish Members, particularly the City and County MPs towards a movement to address at least some of our grievances which will, we believe, be introduced in Parliament next session, that copies our resolution be sent to all County and City MPS.

I beg to remain, Sir, your obedient servant

Michael Rogers – Hon Sec

Written at the bottom of this letter “We thoroughly endorse this letter – William Redmond, John Muldoon, Stehpen Grogan

Notes; John Muldoon was an MP for the Irish Parliamentary Party for North Donegal. After he retired from politics he was appointed Register of Lunacy by the Free State Government and then Chief Justice of Ireland. He retired in 1935

Robert Hogan. Appointed 21.1.1910. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 13.4.1910

John T Collins; Ballineen; Male Attendant; Union Representative; Appointed 29.4.1910. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.6.1924. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 10.8.1933. Promoted Head Nurse 18.5.1937. Superannuated 14.5.1952.

A Typical Day’s Work in 1910 for a young fellow starting in the Asylum

From private note book of John T Collins – who started work in OLH in April 1910. This seems to be notes to himself as a very new attendant – he seems to be trying to remember what a typical day involves

“Then bees waxed and scrubbed [seems to be referring to polishing and scrubbing the floor of the ward]. This should be done by 10.30. Then all go out to the working gang [back in the day patients were grouped together according to the work that they may do]. Exercise of …… (cannot make out the word) all are counted at Hall and again coming back every two divisions [he seems to be talking here about the patients being counted in the dining hall as they go in for their breakfast according to the wards they are on – Divisions) .. “go together in each working gang. They are counted going out the hall again at the corridor door [while leaving the dining room, the patients are again lined up in the corridor and counted].. leading out again at the gate of the exercise grounds and the gate of the working field [it seems now that the patients have left the dining room and are going to where they are supposed to be working without returning to the wards. Some of the patients are not going to work on the farm but some are. Everyone passes through the Exercise Yard and those who are in the working gang continue on to the working field – that is – the farm while those who are not working will stay in the exercise yard]

Author’s comments.
Incredible as it seems, the day’s work described by John T Collins in 1910 as a young fellow coming into the service, was exactly like the day when I came in in 1984. I can understand it perfectly. I came in I was sent to St Patrick’s 1 Ward – it was a shocking place and I am certain (looking back) that the Charge Nurse didn’t want a new young fellow like me observing the ward routine. So, after the patients breakfast – which in my time was on the ward – I was sent with a group of “good patients” up to St Oliver’s Ward – a ward that they called Occupational Therapy – but really was just a place to sent patients who were “too good” for the ward that they had just left. We took the patients to the “exercise yards” except we called them “Airing Courts” [not to be confused with the 19th century Airing Courts] where patients, charge nurse and everyone laid out in the sun

John O’Brien Snr. Appointed 22.10.1910. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 24.3.1920

Timothy Ryan. Appointed 2.10.1910.

John Cotter. Appointed 27.4.1910. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to England Private Nursing.

John Deasy. Appointed 17.6.1910. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 9.2.1912

James M O’Donovan. Courtmacsherry. Appointed 8.7.1910. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant.

Samuel O’Brien. Appointed 13.7.1910. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to England Private Nursing 14.7.1914

John O’Brien. Appointed 22.9.1910. 28 years.3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 24.3.1925. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 4.9.1933. Promoted Special Charge Attendant 7.8.1937. Retired 18.11.1941

Daniel Cronin. Ballingeary. Appointed 24.9.1910. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left to go to England 8.5.1912.

Timothy Tynan. 94 Blarney Street. Appointed 2.10.1910. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Prelim Exam 1.5.1911. Superannuated 16.4.1928

Michael Halloran. Ryan’s Buildings Cork. Appointed 5.10.1910. 20 years.3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to England Private Nursing 18.9.1913. Taken back again 22.4.1919. Resigned 21.2.1923 to go to Australia.

Daniel Hickey. Appointed 18.10.1910. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Transfer to Youghal. Died 16.3.1918

Hannah Hurley. Appointed 18.3.1910. 22 years. Left to get married 32.10.1915

Mary Lombard. Doneraile. Appointed 14.3.1910. 20 years. Was not strong enough for Asylum Work

Johanna Farrell. St Kevin’s Street, Cork. Appointed 21.4.1910. 21 years. Left to get married 27.9.1913

Mary Herlihy. Rathmore, Co. Kerry. Appointed 13.5.1910. 20 years. Left 22.3.1913 to go to America

Katherine O’Driscoll. 94 Horgan’s Buildings, Cork Appointed 20.5.1910. Left 25.6.1910, not strong enough

Madge McCarthy. Bantry. Appointed 28.5.1910. L 22.12.1910. Did not like Asylum Work

Mary Ellen Murphy. Dripsey. Appointed 20.6.1910. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.2.1915. Left to get married 4.8.1921

Ellen O’Leary. Ahinagh. Appointed 21.6.1910. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.2.1916. Left to get married 3.10.1921

Anne Marie Mullane. Appointed 15.7.1910. Left 24.6.1911 going to be trained as a midwife

Hannah T Murphy. Appointed 9.8.1910. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant Nov 1918. Promoted Charge Attendant April 1922. Pension 21.2.1927

Christina McDonnell. Appointed 10.8.1910. Left 26.10.1910 – did not like Asylum Work

Anna Richardson. St Lukes Cork. Appointed 8.10.1910. 28 years. Left to get married 18.12.1912

Kate Hallihane. Appointed 24.8.1910. 29 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.2.1916. Promoted Charge Attendant 30.5.1922. Resigned 19.10.1933

Mary Ellen O’Connell. Inniscarra. Appointed 27.8.1910. 21 years. Left to get married 17.10.1911

Kate Murphy. Innishannon. Appointed 5.10.1910. 20 years. Resigned 16.11.1925

Mary Kate (Kitty) Murphy. Halfway, Ballinhassig. Appointed 10.10.1910. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.4.1916. Left to get married 7.11.1922

Fanny Hill. Appointed 20.10.1910. 22 years. Left to get married 28.11.1913

Mary A Coakley – Inniskeane.

1911

Staff Living or Working in Cork District Lunatic Asylum Census night April 1911

Altridge maria 23 Attendant

Baldwin Emily 26 Attendant
Barrett William 26 Attendant
Barry John 44 Attendant
Browne David 37 Attendant
Buckley Kate 22 Attendant

Cahalane Nora 31 Attendant
Cahill Mary 22 Attendant
Carey Kate 39 Attendant
Carroll Patrick 26 Attendant
Coleman John 28 Attendant
Coleman Julia 25 Attendant
Collins Nora 29 Attendant
Colter John 26 Attendant
Connolly James 23 Attendant
Cotter Johanna 27 Attendant
Coughlan Kate 37 Attendant
Cronin Daaniel 24 Attendant
Cronin Hannah 27 Attendant
Crowley Angela 28 Attendant
Crowley Daniel 22 Attendant
Crowley John 23 Attendant
Crowley Katie 23 Attendant
Cullinane Timothy 28 Attendant
Curtin Mgt 39 Attendant

Deasy John 24 Attendant
Donovan James 31 Attendant
Donovan Mary 40 Attendant
Donovan Michael 30 Attendant
DonovanJames M 22 Attendant
Downing Eleanor J 29 Attendant
Dweeney Eugene 23 Attendant
Dwyer Ellie 23 Attendant
Dwyer Patrick 32 Attendant

Farrell Josephine 19 Attendant
Fitzgerald Julia 23 Attendant
Fitzgerald Mary 21 Attendant
Fitzgerald Mgt 33 Attendant
Flynn Kate 29 Attendant
Flynn Mary Ann 36 Attendant
Flynn Nora 29 Attendant
Flynn Nora 29 Attendant
Foley Mgt 36 Attendant

Garvin Kate 26 Attendant
Geraghty Kathleen 30 Attendant

Hannigan Margaret 25 Attendant
Hawkes Annie 23 Attendant
Hayes Catherine 27 Attendant
Healy Julia 21 Attendant
Hickey Daniel 35 Attendant
Hill Fanny 22 Attendant
Horgan Hannah 27 Attendant
Hurley Mgt 38 Attendant
Hurley Annie 20 Attendant
Hurley Kate 20 Attendant

Jones Thomas 31 Attendant

Kehoe James 42 Attendant
Kennefick John 30 Attendant

Linehan Catherine 24 Attendant
Lombard Mary 21 Attendant
Long Daniel 28 Attendant
Lordan Julia 25 Attendant

Magner Julia +A4:D4123 Attendant
Mahonny Denis 27 Attendant
Mahony Mary 29 Attendant
McAuliffe Nora 22 Attendant
McCarthy Hannah 23 Attendant
McCarthy John 30 Attendant
McCarthy Maggie 38 Attendant
McCarthy Mgt 35 Attendant
McCarthy Mgt J 28 Attendant
McCarthy Michael 36 Attendant
McCarthy Patrick 36 Attendant
McNamara Mary 38 Attendant
Meehan Anastasia 31 Attendant
Morgan Mgt 23 Attendant
Mullane Annie M 30 Attendant
Murphy Annie 26 Attendant
Murphy Ellen 24 Attendant
Murphy Hannah 26 Attendant
Murphy Hannorah 20 Attendant
Murphy Hester 40 Attendant
Murphy Jerrie 40 Attendant
Murphy John 48 Attendant
Murphy Katie 20 Attendant
Murphy Kitty 20 Attendant
Murphy Mary 22 Attendant
Murphy Mary Ellen 23 Attendant
Murphy Nora 39 Attendant

O’Brien John 28 Attendant
O’Brien Julian 36 Attendant
O’Brien Kate 24 Attendant
O’Callaghan Helena 23 Attendant
O’Connell James 23 Attendant
O’Connell Mary E 22 Attendant
O’Connor Abina 28 Attendant
O’Connor Mary 25 Attendant
O’Driscoll Jerh 42 Attendant
O’Keeffe Kate 30 Attendant
O’Keeffe Nora 38 Attendant
O’Keeffe Patrick 27 Attendant
O’Keeffe Patrick 27 Attendant
O’Leary Daniel 30 Attendant
O’Leary Ellen 22 Attendant
O’Leary Mary Ann 25 Attendant
O’Regan Cornelius 28 Attendant
O’Regan John 27 Attendant
O’Reilly Thomas 40 Attendant
O’Shea Lizzie 26 Attendant
O’Sullivan Michael 29 Attendant

Prendergast Edward 23 Attendant

Reardon Mary 30 Attendant
Reen Mary 22 Attendant
Richardson Annie 28 Attendant
Riordan John 37 Attendant
Riordan Michael 30 Attendant
Roche William 23 Attendant
Rogers Bgt 40 Attendant
Ryan Ellie 38 Attendant

Shanahan Mgt J 28 Attendant
Sheehan Kate 22 Attendant
Sullivan Kate 24 Attendant
Sullivan Mary 43 Attendant

Twomey Kate 38 Attendant

Vaughan Lilly 27 Attendant

Walpole John 34 Attendant
Walsh Kate 40 Attendant
Walsh Patrick 28 Attendant

John Fitzpatrick. Roscarberry. Appointed 4.5.1911. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 19.8.1930. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 22.1.1932. Superannuated 16.11.1949

Richard J Daly. Shanballymore. Appointed 6.5.1911. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 15.2.1912 to go to England

James Long. Crookstown. Appointed 14.6.1911. 20 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to join Royal Irish Constabulary 15.2.1912

James Ryan. Prosperity Square. Appointed 14.8.1911. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Died 3.3.1925

Katie Hurley. Appointed 23.3.1911. 20 years. Left to get married 21.7.1920

Bridget Connolly. Appointed 5.4.1911. 23 years. L 20.5.1911 Asylum Work did not suit her

Hannah Desmond. Appointed 15.4.1911. 21 years. Left to go to America 7.8.1913

Kate Riordan. Appointed 19.4.1911. 25 years. Died South Infirmary 12.8.1932

Bridget Sullivan. Appointed 19.4.1911. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 6.1923. Pensioned 16.5.1939

Nellie Lyons. Appointed 2.5.1911. Left to get married 23.6.1913

Mary Russell. Appointed 1.6.1911. 20 years. Left to go to London to be trained as a nurse 27.4.1914

Mary A Murphy. Appointed 21.6.1911. 21 years. Left 9.11.1912 to go to Queensland

Francis Dineen. Appointed 23.6.1911. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant July 1918. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.12.1923. Resigned 16.7.1935

Nellie Sexton. Appointed 8.7.1911. 20 years. Left 1.1.1912 to go to London hospital to train as a nurse

Mary Daly. Appointed 17.8.1912. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.1918. Left to get married 30.7.1923

Mary Purcell. Appointed 24.10.1911.24 years. Left 30.10.1911. Did not like Asylum Work

Ellen O’Connor. Appointed 9.10.1911. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.1922. Left 7.5.1922

Margaret C O’Leary. Appointed 5.10.1911. Left to go to other employment 16.10.11.

Ellen McCarthy. Appointed 29.12.1911. Left 14.1.1917

1912

Cornelius O’Shea. Appointed 20.1.1912. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Died 17.9.1920

Robert Hurley. Enniskeane. Appointed 20.1.1912. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go to Australia 23.7.1913

Michael Ryan. Appointed 10.7.1912. Promoted 15.4.1931.

Jerome Crowley. Appointed 9.5.1912. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Died 19.12.1943.

James Nagle. Ahinagh. Appointed 5.6.1912. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 18.8.1931. Retired 9.8.1948

Thomas McCarthy. Appointed 12.10.1912. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 15.11.1931. Appointed Night and Day Fireman 21.11.1933

Michael Ryan. Appointed 10.7.1912. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 15.4.1931. Superannuated 13.5.1947.

John Buckley. Appointed 10.7.1922. 28 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Died 16.7.1918

Mary Alice Donoghue. Appointed 8.1 1912. 20 years. Left 31.7.1913

Alice Kavanagh. Appointed 12.1.1912. 24 years. Left 2.7.1912

Nora Keneally. Appointed 13.1.1912. 26 years. Left 11.10.1913 Ill-health

Mary Anne Murphy. Appointed 1.2.1913. 21 years. Dr McCarthy Cook. Left 22.12.1913

Julia Crowley. Appointed 4.3.1913. 20 years. Left 26.2.1915 to be trained as a Hospital Nurse

Julia O’Regan. Appointed 27.4.1912. Dr McCarthy Cook. Died 7.7.1916

Hannah Sullivan. Knockacorbally. Appointed 1.7.1912. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.1919. Left to get married 19.6.1922

Hannah O’Driscoll. Appointed 16.7.1912. 20 years. Left to go to America 9.4.1914

Hannah Hickey. Appointed 17.7.1912. Church Street, Kiskeane. Dr Fitzgerald cook. Hospital Cook 18.11.1913. 3rd Class Attendant 2.2.1913. Left to get married 6.11.1914. Hannah was well connected. A letter to the Asylum, dated 3rd Jan 1912 by Member of Parliament Mr DD Sheehan canvassing for a job for her.

Mary O’Brien. Appointed 29.7.1912. Did not like Asylum Work, going to America

Julia Carey. Kiskeem. Appointed 10.8.1912. 26 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant April 1918. Left to get married 1923. Re-entered service 14.3.1932

Kitty Galvin. Enniskeane. Appointed 20.8.1912. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.6.1919. Promoted Charge Attendant 9.1.1924. Pension 30,4.1957

Katherine Buckley. Kilcrea. Appointed 19.10.1912. Left 14.8.1914. Going to America

Margaret O’Halloran. Appointed 11.11.1912. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.9.1919. Left to get married 1.3.1923

Nora Ryan. Appointed 19.11.1912. Prelim 1926. Final 1927. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.1.1920. Laundry 21.8.1922. 2nd in Charge F9 20.1923. Charge Attendant 15.7.1924. Retired 24.3.1936

1913

John McSweeney Appointed 6.3.1913. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 4.7.1927 Medico- Psychological Cert. Superannuated 20.11.1931

Joseph Merriman Appointed 23.7.1913. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 10.10.1927. Medico-Psychological Cert. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Promoted Charge Attendant 20.8.1935. Superannuated 22.1.1947.

Patrick Horgan. Appointed 25.4.1913 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 18.5.1913. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 21.11.1932. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.7.1935. Superannuated 8.2.1947.

John O’Leary. Appointed 19.9.1913. 3rd Class Attendant. Prelim Exam. Medico-Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 21.12.1932. Promoted to Charge Attendant 30.2.1936. Died 19.3.1946.

Michael Franklin. Appointed 21.5.1913. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Died 22.9.1913 in the Cork Fever Hospital from TB.

William J Higgins. Appointed 13.10.1913. 3rd Class Attendant. 26 years. Called up to Army Reserve May 1914.

Rev. Jeremiah Fehilly. Roman Catholic Chaplain Senior

Rev. James O’Flynn. 1881 – 1962. Appointed 16.6.1913. Roman Catholic Chaplain Born in Blackpool, Cork, he went to the Mon and afterwards Farrinferris. Ordained Maynooth 1909. Appointed teacher in Farrinferris and Chaplain to the Cork Asylum. During his time at the Asylum he became sympathetic to the Nationalist cause. IRA men on the run knew that the Asylum was a safe place for them. Bishop Coholan cautioned him about his political activities “Ireland’s does not need any more martyrs”. But Fr O’Flynn drove to the Bishop’s Palace on his “red India motor cycle with side car” and declared “I’m for De Valera, I voted Sinn Fein last December and I subscribed to the Sinn Fein loan”. He then produced a reciepe signed by Michael Collins. He was moved from the Asylum soon afterwards to the North Parish where one of his first jobs was to assist at the funeral off Terence McSweeney. He finished his ministry as Parish Priest of Passage West. [ref stairnahEreann.

John Fitzgerald. Appointed 19.5.1913. Clerk of Works. Superannuated 21.8.1934.

Minnie Jackson. Glanmire. Appointed 22.1.1913. Left to get married 13.9.1913

Kate Spriggs. Blarney Road. Appointed 21.5.1913. 25 years. Left 28.5.1913 did not like Asylum Work

Mary O’Brien. Brandon. 20 years. Left 22.9.1913

Kate Bradley. Kilmichael. Appointed 28.6.1913. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant June 1920. Resigned 13.9.1926

Julia Bartnell. Balyduff. Appointed 4.8.1913. 20 years. Prelim 1927. Final 1928. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.1920. Promoted Charge Attendant 7.1.1928.

Resigned 4.1.1943Lizzie Keohane. Clonakilty. Appointed 13.9.1913. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant November 1920. Promoted Charge Attendant 20.4.1927. Resigned 18.4.1933

Mary Buckley. Inniscarra. Appointed 13.9.1913. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 12.2.1921. 2nd in Laundry 2.1921. Promoted 1st Class Attendant in Laundry 20.1.1923. Left to get married 9.1923

Nellie Lahiffe. Appointed 8.8.1913. 20 years. Left 18.9.1914 – going back to another employment. Returned 30.9.1915. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant May 1923. Left to get married 30.2.1927

Mary McSweeney. Appointed 9.10.1913. Left to get married 30.4.1920

Bessie Calnan. Corrabaly. Appointed 22.01.1913. Resigned 8.1918

Ellie O’Brien. Grenagh. Appointed 22.10.1913. 22 years. Left to get married 31.5.1917

Mary Clutrick (??). Appointed 24.10.1913. 21 years. Resigned 23.5.1915 – required at home

Kate Finn. Appointed 24.10.1913. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant November 1921. Promoted Special Charge Attendant Female Infirmary 7.7.1925. Left to get married 27.1.1928

Mary Eubank. Appointed 15.11.1913. 19 years. Left November 1913 did not like Asylum Work

Annie Hurley. Appointed 1.12.1913. Dr Fitzgerald maid. Promoted 3rd Class Attendant 7.11.1918. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant November 1921. Left to get married 22.2.1924

1914

Michael Spence. Appointed 21.2.19. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.2.1928. Medico- Psychological Cert. Died in the North Fever Hospital 7,8.1948

Patrick Kelly Appointed 24.3.1914. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 16.2.1928. 24 years. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 20.4.1947. Superannuated 1.5.1947.

William McCarthy. Appointed 24.7.1914. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.1.1933. Superannuated 7.6.1949.

Timothy O’Brien. Appointed 12.5.1914. 3rd Class Attendant. 23 years. Died in the Fever Hospital 25.5.1918.

Daniel O’Sullivan. Appointed 25.5.1914. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. 2.3.1918 went on War Service for 2 months. Taken back 18.11.1918. Died in the Fever Hospital 5.8.1920.

William O’Driscoll. Appointed 30.7.1914. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 12.12.14 owing to brothers illness.

Daniel O’Sullivan. Appointed 28.3.1914. Painter. Mrs Henry’s book on page 494 talks about “Bantry Dan” an attendant who died unexpectedly in 1920. A specially convened meeting was held on 6th August 1920 where the chairman said “little did anyone anticipate that his illness would prove fatal, the news of his death came as a shock to all and everyone deplored his unexpected end”. “His personality had endeared him to them all, to know him was to regard him with feelings of affection, his light-heartedness, honesty and straightforwardness had earned the esteem of everybody whom he came in contact”. A deputation of staff engaged a lorry at a cost of £10 to attend the funeral in Bantry. The Cork Branch of the Irish Asylum Workers Union would bear half the expense.

Anne Bradley. Kilmichael. Appointed 22.1.1914. 27 years. Dr Fitzgerald’s cook. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.11.1918. Left to get married 13.11.1923

Kate Byrne. Inniscarra. Appointed 22.1.1914. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 17.11.1922. Left to go to Australia 20.2.1927

Mary Crowley. Appointed 28.1.1914. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.5.1922. Resigned 16.6.1924

Elizabeth O’Neill. Kilkeale. Appointed 14.2.1914. 20 years. Left to get married 24.2.1922

Hannah O’Sullivan. Appointed 14.2.1914. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.4.1924. Left to get married 11.11.1924

Mary Cunningham. Appointed 7.3.1914. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 21.4.1927. Promoted Special Charge Attendant F3. 29.4.1936. Female 1 1939. Prelim 1926. Final 1927. Resigned June 1951

Hannah Duggan. Innishannon. Appointed 25.3.1914. Left 27.10.1915

Nellie Hurley. Appointed 4.4.1914. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 21.8.1922. Promoted Charge Attendant F4 7.6.1930. Retired 19.4.1939

Nora O’Reilly. Currants, Co. Kerry. Appointed 29.4.1914. 23 years. L 26.4.1914 did not like Asylum Work

Nora McCarthy. Inniskeane. Appointed 20.4.1914. Died 2.3.1919

Mary Kennedy. Appointed 20.4.1914. 22 years.

Mary Hayes. Appointed 21.4.1914. 20 year. Left to get married 5.9.1921

Hannah Mary Cahalane. Appointed 20.6.1914. 20 years. Left ill-health 9.1921

Angela Gould. Glounthaune. Appointed 29.6.1914. 21 years.

Nora O’Keeffe. Appointed 10.7.1914. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 10.5.1923. Left to get married 26.10.1926

Kate Corcoran. Appointed 14.7.1914. 25 years. Left 20.3.1915 required at home

Catherine O’Flynn. Appointed 25.8.1914. Left to get married 29.6.1916

1915

List of subscribers to Dr McCarthy Testimonial found among papers of Union Secretary John T Collins. There is no context. The amount of money subscribed by each staff member is noted beside their names. Where no amount is listed you can take it that the amount subscribed is the same as the amount listed at the closest name above it.

21. 10. 1915
Subscriptions to the Dr McCarthy Testimonial
Julia O’Brien 7/
Margaret Hurley /5
Nora Calnan
Margaret Fitzgerald
Mary A O’Leary
B Geraghty 2/6
K Walsh
JA Lordan
MJ McCarthy
K Carey
K Buckley
MA Flynn
M Riordan 2/
L Vaughan
MJ McCarthy
H Hickey
ME Duggan
C Hayes 1/
M McNamara
L O’Callaghan
A Gould
N Collins
ME Murphy
M Baldwin
K Hurley
L Shea
J Fitzgerald
J Coleman
K Crowley
E Dwyer
A Farrell
MK O’Sullivan
H Cronin
H O’Sullivan
A Lane
N O’Keeffe
Julia Murphy
H Duggan
J Dineen
M Halloran
N McCarthy
K Murphy
J Bartnett
K Finn
M Kennedy
NJ Murphy
J Carey
M O’Brien
K Galvin
L Keohane
E O’Brien
M Hurley
M Buckley
K Bradley
A Bradley
E O’Connor
M Cahill
B CAlnan
K Murphy
E O’Leary
M Buckley
A Hawkes
K Brien
M Connolly
J Keaneally
M McSweeney
B O’Sullivan
H O’Sullivan
A Shanahan
L Spriggs
H McCarthy
JM O’Connell
E Lombert
Johanna Murphy
Margaret Creed
£5 18s 0d – total £7.8

Female staff £5 18s 0d
Male staff £4. 8s 0d
Officers £3 5s 6d
Total; £13 11s 6d

Jerh Carroll. Appointed 16.1.15. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 10.4.1928

Daniel Donoghue. Appointed 16.1.1915. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left to go on War Service 26.3.1918. Taken back 22.4.1919. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.2.1933. Promoted Charge Attendant 7.6.1937. Superannuated 13.3.1942

John O’Regan. Appointed 24.2.1915. 35 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.3.1933. Promoted Coalman 20.7.1936. Promoted Charge Attendant 18.5.2937. Died 10.12.1947.

Robert O’Brien. Appointed 25.5.1915. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 16.2.1928. Medico- Psychological Cert. He married Attendant Margaret Ryan in 1922. Her father -Hugh Ryan- worked in the asylum as well (see 1895)

Patrick O’Flynn Jnr. Appointed 4.5.1915 3rd Class Attendant. 21 years. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 3.8.1933. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Promoted Charge Attendant 7.8.1937. Appointed Hall Porter 1.4.1942.

Timothy O’Sullivan. Appointed 22.10.1915. 3rd Class Attendant. 25 years. Prelim. Superannuated 19.3.1928.

Jeremiah Carroll. Appointed 16.1.1915. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 10.4.1928. Appointed Laundry Charge 7.3.1946.

Edward Walsh. Appointed 9.1.1915. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 22.5.1918.

John Horgan. Appointed 20.2.1915. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Resigned 28.2.1916. Taken back see minutes of Board 18.9.1922. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.8.1937

Michael Keating. Appointed 19.10.1915. Superannuated 15.2.1938.

Very Rev. GR Jordan. Appointed 11.5.1915. Minister.

Julia Twomey. Inniscarra. Appointed 21.1.1915. Left 1.4.1916

Julia Mahony. Inniskeane. Appointed 21.1.1915. 23 years. Left 17.4.1916 not strong enough

Margaret H Connor. Appointed 2.2.1915. 20 years. Left to train as a Hospital Nurse 18.5.1916

Julia Mary Connell. Castletownsend. Appointed 2.2.1915. Left to get married 23.1.1923

Kate Sheehan. Appointed 5.2.1915. 25 years. Left 11.2.1915

Elizabeth Spriggs. Appointed 17.2.1915. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.1923. Promoted Charge Attendant 10.10.1927. Prelim 1927. Final 1928. Pension March 1932

Nellie Kelleher. Appointed 24.2.1915. 24 years. Left 18.3.1915 wanted at home

Julia Mahony. Appointed 12.3.1915. 23 years. Left to get married 14.11.1923

Ellie Lombard. Appointed 19.3.1915. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 12.1923. Promoted Charge Attendant 26.6.1931. Resigned 13.11.1936

Julia Keneally. Appointed 23.3.1915. 20 years. Left 28.8.1916

Annie Lane. Mallow. Appointed 3.5.1915. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant February 1923. Left to get married 28.2.1924

Mary Ellen Duggan. Appointed 26.5.1915. 22 years. Left 12.6.1916

Annie Shanahan. Appointed 22.6.1915. Left 22.12.1916

Mary Syms. Appointed 27.7.1915. 26 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 9.1.1924. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 25.8.1926. Prelim 1925. Final 1926

Mary Murphy. Appointed 4.8.1915. Left 21.9.1915. Did not like Asylum Work

Christina Aherne. Appointed 7.9.1915. Left to get married 31.5.1919

Hannah Dulea. Appointed 11.11.1915. Promoted Charge Attendant 6.1917. Charge of Dining Hall May 1922. Died South Infirmary after operation 11.3.1934

1916

Daniel Cronin. Appointed 4.4.1916. 3rd Class Attendant. 28 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 24.8.1932. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.8.1937. Superannuated 12.11.1949

Thomas Hayes. Appointed 6.3.1916. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 13.3.1916 – did not like a Asylum life.

Henry Walsh. Appointed 18.12.1916. Painter

Mary Murphy. Appointed 2.2.1916. 20 years. Cook at ??? house. Ward Duty 3rd Class Attendant 7.6.1927. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.5.1924. Pension 19.4.1927

Julia McCarthy. Appointed 5.4.1916. Left 1.6.1916 Asylum Work did not suit her

Kate Lucey. Clondrihid. Appointed 5.4.1916. 24 years. Left to get married 31.1.1923

Ellen Kelleher. Macroom. Appointed 31.5.1916. Left to get married 28.7.1917

Kate Murray. Kilnamatyra. Appointed 27.6.1916. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.7.1924. Left 17.5.1927

Kate Sheehy. Appointed 21.7.1916. 24 years. Left 8.12.1918

Julia Twomey. Appointed 22.7.1916. 21 years . Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 6.1923. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 28.6.1926. Left to 1.9.1927

May Lyndon. Appointed 24.8.1916. Left 20.8.1918

Cargerine Beamish. Rathbarry. Appointed 28.8.1916. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.7.1925. Promoted Charge Attendant 24.3.1932. Resigned 12.12.1949.

Mary Anne Jackson. Appointed 28.8.1916. Left to get married 27.5.1927

Ellen O’Brien. Ballynoe. Appointed 24.9.1916. Left to get married 2.2.1925

Bridget Hayes. Appointed 26.9.1916. 22 years. Left to get married November 1921.

1917

Letter written in 1917 by Asylum Attendants Union Secretary (Cork Branch) John T Collins outlining reasons why staff should get a pay rise.

Male Third Class Attendants received 20 pounds a year rising to 50 pounds for a Charge Attendant. In addition they received Beer Money, Band Money, Red Book Money and Fire Brigade Money. A Third class man could expect to be promoted to Second Class after 9 years and to Charge Attendant after 16 years. Hours of Duty; 6AM to 8PM every day – this is a 98 hour week. Every third Sunday staff were allowed leave from 11AM to 8PM. All unmarried staff were required to live in the Asylum. The Red Book money that is mentioned is money paid to staff who successfully passed the examinations of the Psychological – Medico Association. The core text book was called ‘the Red Book’. The exams, which were not compulsory, were introduced in 1891. This was replaced by the exams of the Irish Nursing Council in 1935. We have seen Ellen Sullivan was one of the first people in the hospital to pass the exam in 1898.

n June a fire occurred in the roof of the new building [St. Kevin’s]. It is believed to have been caused by sparks from the boiler flue. It was speedily extinguished by the Asylum Fire Brigade.

John Foley. Appointed 19.6.1917. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 15.1.31

Rev. John O’Leary. Appointed January 1917. Chaplain Senior.

Mary Shanahan. Castlemartyr. Appointed 11.1.1917. Left to get married 8.1.1925

Mary Kate O’Keeffe. Appointed 22.1.1917. 20 years. Left to get married 8.2.1924

Mary Hurley. Enniskean. Appointed 13.2.1916. Died 27.9.1923

Mary Magner. Appointed 22.2.1917. Left 7.7.1917

Ellen Collins. Dunmanway. Appointed 23.5.1917. 27 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.7.1928. Promoted Charge Attendant 18.4.1933. Died June 1946

Alice Donoghue. Appointed 21.6.1917. Left to get married 17.6.1920

Mary Kennedy. Appointed 21.6.1917. Left 29.3.1923 wanted at home

Nellie Byrne. Clonakilty. Appointed 23.6.1917. Left 23.5.1921

Margaret Cullen. Lisgould. Appointed 30.6.1917. Left to get married 14.6.1927

Nora O’Mahony. Appointed 2.7.1917. Dr McCarthy Cook. Left 18.2.1918

Eliza Murray. Inniscarra. Appointed 8.9.1917. Left to get married 16.5.1924

Margaret (Peggy) Aherne. Not listed in Female Attendants Register but listed in minutes for June 1917 as being appointed.

Sean Moylan was a Sinn Fein activist, an IRA commander and a Fianna Fáil TD and minister. From Limerick, he spent most of his youth in Newmarket, north Cork. In 1919, he was arrested from making a fiery anti- British speech and found himself serving 3 months in the County Jail.

In a conversation with a fellow prisoner, the bones of an audicious escape plan were laid down which involved the conivence of most of the prisoners. Word was put out that Moylan was a dangerous lunatic. Indeed, it was suggested to the Prison warders that not only was he a lunatic but that all his family had died in the Asylum. Moylan threw his dinner on the floor and spoke and acted in a very odd way. He played the part so convincingly that by morning the authorities decided to call the doctor. He managed to convince the doctor that he needed to be admitted to the Mental Hospital.
When he arrived there, he wasted no time in implementing part 2 of the daringly escape plan. Helped by a female attendant called Peggy Aherne, he managed to slip away from his ward and escaped over the wall. He went on to play an important part in the War of Independence.
Peggy worked as an attendant in the Mental Hospital from 1916 until she left to get married in 1923. During this time she was a committed member of Cumann na mBan.
Peggy (Margaret) Aherne from Dunbar Street in Cork, is the grandmother of Michael Martin TD – leader of Fianna Fáil.

1918

Patrick Desmond. Appointed 22.11.1918. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 14.8.1934. Promoted Charge Attendant 18.8.1941.

John O’Brien. Appointed 30.3.1918. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted Charge Attendant 21.9.1937.

Timothy O’Callaghan. Appointed 1.4.1918. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go home farming 19.6.1916

Vincent Mulcathy. Carpenter.

John Murphy. Appointed 22.6.1918. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant,. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 11.6.1934. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 14.11.1938.

David Hunter. Appointed 29.6.1918. 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant.

Edward Lane. Appointed 26.6.1918. 21 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 28.4.1922.

Jane Lucy. Appointed 19.1.1918. Dr McCarthy Cook. Ward Duty. 3rd Class Attendant 27.11.1918. Left 31.5.1919 to take up other employment

Catherine Murphy. Appointed 14.3.1918. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.7.1925. Left to go to America 21.1.1929

Mary Conway. Appointed 14.3.1918. 30 years. Left to get married 22.9.1925

Bessie Hawkes. Appointed 20.2.1918. 20 years. Died 31.3.1923

Catherine Leavy. Appointed 4.4.1918. Left 13.8.1918. Required at home

Bridget Downey. Appointed 15.8.1918. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 6.11.1925. Left to go to America 22.1.1929

Nellie O’Sullivan. Roscarberry. Appointed 24.8.1918. Died 3.1921.

Nora Long. Appointed 9.9.1918. Resigned 30.9.1922

Julia Sullivan. Appointed 10.10.1918. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 5.12.1925. Left to get married 21.6.1927

Mary Griffin. Appointed 27.11.1918. Dr McCarthy Cook. Left 21.1.1921

Mary Fitzgerald. Appointed 31.12.1918. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.1920. Left to get married 26.6.1920

1919

In February 1919, the staff of the Monaghan Asylum decided that they no longer wanted to work 96 hours a week – every 13th day off and every 4th Sunday. They went on strike – not only that, but they decided to declare the asylum to be a ‘Soviet’ run by the staff and the patients – they put the matron and the RMS out and hoisted the red flag over the building. It was raised in the House of Commons on the 19th of February. The staff and the patients locked themselves in and the hospital ran just as good – if not better -without the management.

The staff wanted a 56 hour week and management conceded to this. By sticking to their guns, they were successful in their claims – like they used to say in OLH back in the day – ‘you can’t beat the warders’. The Union leader was Peadar Kearney – author of the Irish National Anthem

From the John T Collins Papers 1919

“Night duty to start at 9.30, giving a night of nine and a half hours – for six nights would be 57 hours with an extra week on the twelve month would bring them down to 56. This would mean that about eleven of the day staff to relieve each night which would be about once a week – an additional two hours a week for the day staff.

Day staff to take over duty at seven – break at 7.30. This allows one and a half hours for meals – would be eleven hours daily with one full day off an a half a day or five hours from 2.30 each week with every second Sunday off”.

This is an attempt by the Union to find a mechanism which would allow for a reduction in hours to 56 hours per week. Collins was the Secretary of the Cork Branch of the Asylum Workers Union.

Cornelius Cronin. Appointed 16.4.1919. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.10.1934. Superannuated 16.7.1948.

Daniel Sheehan. Appointed 16.4.1919. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 13.8.1934. Promoted Special Charge Attendant 1.12.1941.Timothy Connell. Appointed 22.4.1919. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 15.1.1935. Promoted Charge Attendant 27.11.1941.

Michael Slocum. Appointed 22.4.1919. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.7.1935. Promoted Charge Attendant 17.11.1936 on recommendation of RMS. Michael’s son Denis worked in OLH [class of ] while his grandson Michael also worked here in the 1980s.

James Healy. Appointed 22.4.1919. 29 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 14.7.1935. Resigned 11.6.1943 – ill health.

Michael Casey. Appointed 22.4.1919. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.7.1936. Superannuated 13.11.1949.

James O’Mahony. Appointed 28.5.1919. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Pension 21.7.1931

James Hayes. Appointed 16.4.1919. 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Died 22.11.1923.

Daniel Cunningham. Appointed 19.9.1919. Scaffold maker. Superannuated 5.1.1947.

Patrick Hanley. Appointed 19.9.1919. Labourer.

James Madden. Appointed 18.8.1919. Mason

Henry Varian. Appointed 18.8.1919. Mason. Superannuated 7.4.1947.

Christina Healy. Appointed 20.3.1919. Left 22.12.1920

Mary Corcoran. Appointed 20.3.1919. 20 years. Prelim 1927. Final 1928. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.4.1927. Promoted Charge of Infirmary 18.2.1928. Head Night Attendant 7.11.38. Retired September 1952

Kate Bartnell. Appointed 20.3.1919. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.4.1927. Promoted Charge Attendant F4 7.11.1933. Retired 1.4.1944

Ellen Connolly. Appointed 21.3.1919. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.4.1927. Promoted Charge Attendant 5.3.1935. Charge F10 8.1.1943. Retired 4.5.1944.

Kate McCarthy. Appointed 17.4.1919. 29 years. Left to get married 30.4.1921

Lizzie Crowley. Drimoleague. Appointed 24.4.1919. 21 years. Left 6.8.1926 to go to America

Margaret Ryan . Appointed 22.4.1919. 20 years. Left to get married 16.10.1922. Married Robert O’Brien – who was also on the staff. His father was a tradesman while her father – Hugh Ryan (started 1895) – was also an Attendant at the Asylum

Eva Thorne. Appointed 22.4.1919. 28 years. Left 30.9.1920 to go to America

Mary Twomey. Blarney. Appointed 22.4.1919. Prelim 1927. Final 1928. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.4.1927. Promoted Charge Attendant 18.8.1928. Left to get married 1.1.1937

Margaret Kennedy. Inchageala. Appointed 22.4.1919. 26 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.4.1927. Left to get married 11.6.1930

Bridget Butler. Ballygarvin. Appointed 22.4.1919. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 4.1927. Promoted Charge Attendant 7.3.1935 F8. Left 15.6.1937. Ill- health

Ellen Sutton Cork City. Appointed 22.4.1919. Left to go to America 30.9.1920

Eileen O’Connor. Appointed 22.4.1919. Left 12.3.1921 to take up but in another Asylum

Hannah Collins. Appointed 26.51919. Dr McCarthy Cook. L 18.3.1923.

1920

Minutes of meeting of Board of Management of the Cork District Lunatic Asylum; In the Chair is Alderman Curtain. This is Lord Mayor Tomas McCurtain, less than two weeks before he was murdered. The Lord Mayor had an automatic right to chair the Board meeting

I have often heard it said that the Hospital was often used by the Old IRA during the War of Independence. I have now uncovered some evidence that this was indeed the case. It will probably take a longer article (which I will get around to writing in due course) to fully understand the role it played. For the time being, I will just post the following articles.

New York Times 19 April 1921
Four Arrested in Cork
Police Raid the Monthly Meeting of the Management of the Lunatic Asylum
Cork, April 18 – Plain clothes policemen appeared suddenly at the monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Cork Lunatic Asylum today and arrested four members of the committee. The four were Father Aherne, Councillor Good, Jean Hayes, Sinn Fein Member of the British House of Commons and Alderman Sean Sullivan. All were lodged in the Cork military barracks
Historian Peter Harte in his book “The IRA and it’s Enemies” (p310) tells how …..”women who were seen with [British] soldiers were automatically put into this category [promiscuous]. One such who barely escaped with her life was Mrs Marshall – a soldier’s wife in Cork City. Kidnapped by the IRA in August 1920 and convicted of ‘having given information to the military which led to the arrest of the late Lord Mayor of Cork [Terence McSweeney]‘, she was rescued from the female Lunatic Asylum by an army patrol before sentence could be carried out…”
Harte goes on to say …“In reality, she had nothing to do with McSweeney’s capture….nor according to British army intelligence has she given information of any value… her crime it would appear was to have been a garrison seamstress..”

It is a little ironic that the person accused of informing on Terrence McSweeney should be held captive there, as McSweeney, as Lord Mayor, was also on the Board of Management of the Asylum. His wife, Mary, in her statement to the Military History Bureau (WS637 p 38) recalls …”He was absolutely straight [her husband] and self sacrificing – and I remember how terribly the state of corruption in the Workhouse and the Asylum in Cork worried him when he was Mayor. He said to me once that if only that was clean it would be a greater load off his mind than anything else. But at the time it was the Redmonites who were corrupt, not us [Sinn Fein]…”
But whoever it was that McSweeney was pointing the finger at – we can deduce from another witness statement that he did not lay the blame on the staff. Army Officer PJ Murphy in his statement to the Bureau of Military History in 1953 (WS869) recalls that …. “at that particular time [1919 – 1920] Terence McSweeney was living in Sunday’s Well but spent most of his nights with the RMS in Cork Asylum…” This statement definitely has the ring of veracity about it as Murphy gets the title of the doctor correct (RMS = Resident Medical Superintendent) but uses the vernacular for the Hospital. The RMS at the time was Dr. JJ Fitzgerald 1906 – 1922.
On the night of 23rd of March 1921, police and army raided the farm of Cornelius O’Keeffe at Clogheen. This house was directly adjacant to the Asylum farm at Mount Desert. During the raid six IRA volunteers were arrested and shot – all six young men lived in the immediate area; Daniel Crowley, 23, 171 Blarney Street; William Deasy, 20, Mount Desert; Thomas Dennehy, 21, 104 Blarney Street; Daniel Murphy, 24, Orrery Hill, off Blarney Street, Jeremiah Mullane, 23, 237 Blarney Street and Michael O’Sullivan, 20, 281 Blarney Street. It is remarkable to think that all six were immediate neighbours of ‘Long Con’ Sheehan [see entry Cornelius Sheehan 1899], the asylum attendant shot by the IRA two nights earlier at his home at 298 Blarney StreetCharles Hyde Appointed 19.5.1920. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 20.1.1936. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.4.1943.

Michael Falvey. 3rd Class Attendant. 27 years. Appointed 1.11.1920. Promoted Charge Attendant 11.1.1943. He married Elizabeth Hurley – whose address is the Mardyke on 26th Feb 1924. Both of their fathers were farmers

Denis McCarthy. Appointed 13.5.1920. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Superannuated 21.8.1934.

John Fitzpatrick. Appointed 14.5.1920. 3rd Class Attendant. Died in Mercy Hospital 25.11.1930 – had been interned for republican activity by Free State in March 1923 – June 1923.

John O’Sullivan. Appointed 3.5.1920. Tinsmith. Superannuated 21.4.1944.

Wilfred Thornton. Appointed 20.8.1920. 18 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 13.2.1921.

Cissie O’Sullivan. Appointed 7.5.1920. Prelim Exam 1928. Night duty Feb 1921. Promoted 2nd Class atendnt 23.1.1929. Promoted Charge Attendant 18.7.1935. Promoted to Dining Hall 29.4.1936. Retired 1955

Mary Scanlon. Appointed 31.5.1920. 28 years. Night duty 1.10.1920. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 22.1.1929. Promoted Charge Attendant Female 6 7.4.1936. Retired 19.10.1937

Kate Touhy. Appointed 19.6.1920. 21 years. Left to get married 4.11.1924

Hannah Cleary. Appointed 20.9.1920. 21 years. Left to get married 8.11.1924. Had been interned in March 1923 – Sept 1923

Catherine Cashman. Appointed 21.9.1920. 21 years. Left to get married 8.1926

Helena Kate Daly. Appointed 27.9.1920. 23 years. Final Exam 1930. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 23.9.1929. Retired 7.6.1935. Had been interned March – September 1923

Elizabeth O’Driscoll. Appointed 7.10,1920 22 years. Left to get married 17.10.1927

Rev. T Cantillon. Appointed October 1920. RC Chaplain Junior.

Rev. W McKeown. Appointed 13.1.1920. Presbyterian Chaplain.

1921

Military Raid on the Hospital; Board of Management arrested.

William Charleton. 3rd Class attendant. Appointed 2.3.1920. 29 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 14.10.1936. Superannuated 8.4.1947.

George Hardy. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed 14.8.1921. 28 years.

Jerome Collins. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed 21.5.1921. 25 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.4.1937. Prelim. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted Temporary Charge 3X. Promoted Special Charge Attendant 29.1.1944 on the death of Patrick McCarthy.

Daniel Hickey. Appointed 31.8.1921. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left to go to Australia 26.8.1922

Michael Bowles. 25 years. Blacksmith

Stephen Burke. Blacksmith

Julia Agnes Murray. Appointed 8.3.1921. 20 years. Resigned 7.5.1922

Nora O’Mullane. Appointed 11.3.1921. 24 years

Nora Lyons – Cook. Appointed 16.3.1921. Promoted 11.4.1922 (See 15 1931)

Elizabeth Doyle. Appointed 21.3.1921. 26 years. Final 1928. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 20.6.1927. Promoted Charge Attendant 29.4.1936. Retired 7.5.1953

Kate Walsh. Appointed 23.3.1921. 21 years. RIP 15.10.1925

Jane Horgan. Appointed 18.4.1921. 20 years. Left 7.2.1922 – required at home

Nellie O’Sullivan. Appointed 18.4.1921. Final Exam 1928. Promoted to 2nd Class attendant 20.6.1927. Left to get married 19.9.1929

Hannah Mary Murphy. Appointed 22.4.1921. 20 years. Left to get married 11.7.1928

Hannah Peyton. Appointed 24.4.1921. 24 years. Left 27.3.1921 – required at home

Augustine Mary McCarthy. Appointed 11.5.1921. Left to get married 8.2.1928

Elizabeth O’Driscoll. Appointed 19.7.1921. 22 years. Left to get married 17.10.1927

Mary G Donoghue. Appointed 19.7.1921. 24 years. Prelim 1927. Promoted to 2nd Class Attendant 24.10.1927. RIP 3.12.1930

Ellen Crowley. Appointed 19.7.1921. 20 years. Left to get married 9.4.1928

Elizabeth Daly. Appointed 19.7.1921. aged 19. Left to get married 21.11.1925

Johanna Lenihan. Appointed 19.7.1921. 28 years. Left 18.2.1922 – did not like Asylum work.

Alice Hyde. Appointed 30.7.1921. Final exam 1927. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 25.8.1925. Promoted Charge attendant 30.12.1936. Retired 17.10.1937

Margaret O’Callaghan. Appointed 7.7.1921. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.7.1931. Resigned 31.5.1956.

Mary Kelly. Appointed 3.11.1921. 21 years. Resigned 2.10.1922

Katherine O’Sullivan. Appointed 22.11.1921. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 24.10.1927. Resigned to get married 27.6.1931.

1922

Michael O’Connell Appointed 29.4.1922. 31 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.6.1937. Prelim. Nursing Council of Ireland 1938

Dr Owen McCarthy RMS 1922 – 1930

Michael O’Connell Appointed 29.4.1922. 31 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.6.1937. Prelim. Nursing Council of Ireland 1938

Michael Flynn. 3rd Class attendant. Appointed 21.7.1922

George McCarthy. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed 24.4.1922. 23 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.6.1937. Prelim. Nursing Council of Ireland Cert.

Daniel O’Reilly. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed 22.7.1922. 29 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.6.1937

John Savage. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed 9.8.1922. 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Prelim. Medico- Psychological Cert. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 12.7.1937. Promoted Charge Attendant 19.4.1946. John Married Mary Ellen Barrett at SS Peter & Pauls on 17 July 1929. She was from Knockarullig, Killanardish. He describes himself as a ‘male nurse’. His father was Timothy. Her father James was a farmer. The marriage was witnessed by JohnO’Brien and Hanna Barrett.

George Wycherley. Appointed 28.4.1922. 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 28.2.1928.

Cornelius O’Mahony. Appointed 21.7.1922. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 2.7.1923

Helen Lane. Appointed 9.2.1922. 24 years. Resigned to get married 21.11.1926.

Claire Lordan. Appointed 10.2.1922. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 7.7.1930. Resigned to get married 12.9.1936.

Nellie O’Sullivan. Appointed 14.2.1922. 23 years

Susan Heath. Appointed 21.2.1922. 29 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 1.12.1925 to take up nursing in Ennis Sanatorium.

Hanah Cronin. Appointed 2.3.1922. 3rd Class Attendant. 24 years. Left to get married 7.9.1927. She married George Martin of 47 Gardiner’s Hill 8 September 1927. He was a compositor. His father George was also a compositor. Her father was a farmer.

Hannah O’Regan. Appointed 22.4.1922. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 25.8.1926. Resigned 22.4.1950

Mary Twomey. Appointed 22.4.1922. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 25.1.1929. Left to get married 7.4.1934

Mary Ellen Breen. Appointed 10.5.1922. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.6.1930. Prelim exam 1928. Left to get married 2.8.1930.

Catherine Leary. Appointed 21.5.1922. Aged 28 years

Elizabeth O’Donoghue. Appointed 6.6.1922. 20 years. RIP 24.7.1924

Ellen Mahony. Appointed 7.6.1922. 23 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1924. Resigned to go to America 8.4.1929

Margaret Brady Appointed 8.6.1922. aged 21 years. Resigned 26.4.1926

Mary G O’Sullivan. Appointed 28.6.1922. Aged 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 8.8.1930. Left to get married 8.4.1932.

Ellen Hourihan. Appointed 24.6.1922. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 23.6.1927. Promoted Charge Attendant 7.12.1929. Resigned 14.6.1960

Mary Hallihan. Appointed 7.2.1922. 21 years. Left to get married 7.4.1925.

Names of Officials having the Medico Psychological Certificate 1st October 1922

Mr William Murphy (Storekeeper) Charge attendant 22.11.24

Thomas Hayes Special Attendant

Charles Regan Charge Attendant 28.2.1927

Christopher Leavy

Charles Regan

Patrick O’Sullivan

C Leary

Thomas Hayes

Special Attendant Jeremiah Murphy

Charles Regan

David Crowley

Jeremiah Murphy

Michael McCarthy

Patrick Murphy

Micheal Rogers

Charge Attendant Thomas Jones

David Crowley

Robert Jackson

John Holly

Michael McCarthy

Patrick Murphy

John McCarthy

Thomas Joules

Patrick Long

Hugh Ryan

William Kelly

John Kelly

John Cronin

W Kelly

Patrick Flynn Snr

Patrick Long

Patrick Walsh

John Keane

Thomas Drinan

Daniel O’Connor

Timothy Cullinane

Hugh Ryan

P. Hall

C D Chase

Michael O’Donovan

Richard Clarke

Cornelius Regan

John Crowley Snr