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St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst c1869-74

St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst c1869-74

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Clarke, JR

State Library of New South Wales

Hospitals

Despite medical and scientific advances, the huge hospital complexes of today face similar challenges of staffing, capacity and politics as those of Sydney's first tent hospitals.

Irish in Sydney from First Fleet to Federation

A large part of Sydney's European community from its earliest days, the Irish helped shape the colony and its cultural and religious institutions. While many Irish immigrants, both convict and free, prospered and flourished in Sydney throughout the nineteenth century, they rarely forgot their homeland and its struggles, and remained a community which never thought of England as 'home'.

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Hospitals

St Vincent's Hospital

Hospital founded by the Sisters of Charity Catholic religious order in 1857, which has grown into one of Sydney's largest health care organisations, with public and private divisions, a hospice and teaching and research facilities.

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Darlinghurst

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Inner suburb to the east of the city which has been home to both gentry and underclass. The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School.