Rotunda Hospital

Newman took on this role with enthusiasm.

And one of his first actions in this new role was to deliver lectures in a, a theater which is now called the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin on five consecutive Mondays during May and June in eighteen fifty-two.

And when they were later published, those lectures formed part of the discourses of his book, The Idea of a University, for which Newman is famous.

At the time, Irish secondary schools were not producing sufficient numbers of students qualified to attend a university.

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in the Rotunda Hospital, a gorgeous room, um-

It's beautiful, yeah

... where the, the-

I mean, he was describing the area.

He was born in the Rotunda Hospital, just at the top of what is now O'Connell Street.

And he was in his imagination describing to me his father bringing him to his christening through the rubble of O'Connell Street.

So my father was born.

But even that as a process, like it's really massive, isn't

it? They were held in the pillar room of the Rotunda Hospital, underneath the Rotunda Hospital.

I actually attended two days.

My friend Moya Carney, who was a producer here with RTE, was making a brilliant documentary about the Stardust, which, alas, is not on the player, but we hope it will be someday soon.

Scale Makers at 17 William Street.

The married couple first appeared together on the register of births in 1910. when their son Joseph was born in the Rotunda Hospital on the 22nd of June.

The 1911 census shows that the family, whose name the enumerator recorded as Maple, M-A-P-E-L, are living in a single room at 73 Capel Street, a house they shared with the Dempsey, Matney and Hawkins families.

The residents of Dublin's tenements were constantly on the move, sometimes in search of better living conditions, sometimes lower rent, and sometimes, when they had fallen into arrears, would pack up their belongings in the middle of the night and disappear to another part of the city before their landlord noticed they were gone.

I'm a paediatrician and neonatologist, so dual trained.

And I work majority out of the Rotunda Hospital and also out of Evie Clinic down in Sandiford.

I am also a dad.

So the chaos, it's very fitting, you know, joining you guys in this podcast, bringing chaos from work to home to work to home.

around 10 to 15 percent of women and symptoms can include difficulty bonding with the baby persistent low moods or frequent crying severe anxiety feelings of guilt and trouble sleeping this can sometimes start as baby blues and for many it can resolve as time goes on but for others it can develop into more serious and long-lasting mental health issues And I think crucially symptoms can appear over the course of the first year at any point, sometimes peaking or emerging after six months.

So for women who are struggling with this, there are six specialist hubs in maternity hospitals around the country, the National Maternity Hospital, Coombe Hospital and the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, as well as the maternity hospitals in Cork, Limerick and Galway.

And the other 13 maternity hospitals across the country are staffed by perinatal mental health midwives that can deal with less complex cases.

As you say, this is not the baby blues.