Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Archive This collection contains the papers of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital from its opening in 1861 to the present day. Due to the previous destruction of many of the former records, there are significant gaps in the chronology of much of the archival material. The material is extremely wide-ranging and highlights the foundation and day-to-day running of the hospital. It includes mainly administrative, financial, nursing records, and hospital project development papers created by the hospital, but also some patient records, clinical education records, and material relating to the hospitals’ culture. There is also a collection of photographs, as well as a collection of ephemera, medical equipment, and various objects and signage relating to the Maters’ history. The arrangement is somewhat complex due firstly to the overall volume and type of records and secondly due to the hospital’s administrative structure and its reorganization over time. It is important to stress that this is only a partial descriptive list and does not currently contain the entirety of the collection. One of largest sections in the collection relate to the Mater’s administration; it currently contains annual reports; the minute books of the Mater’s Medical Board; select minute books of the various Sub-Committees of the Executive Committee; material relating to the hospital constitution and various related hospitals annual reports. The ‘Financial Papers’ contain a series of general financial account books, mainly debit and credit general ledgers including the receipts and Expenditure of Medical Board; cash books, and annual accounts. The collection also contains material on patients’ records; these include patient admission and discharge registers, operating theatre registers, and a small selection of various other patient records including an autopsy register, an early gynaecological patient register and a volume of [?Dr Thomas Hayden’s] case notes/patient notebook. Due to the sensitive personal information contained within some of these records, special permission needs to be obtained to view records under 100 years old. For full details of access rules see the MMUHA Access Policy. The ‘Nursing’ series contains administrative records which include registers of probationer nurses from the opening of the original School of Nursing in 1891 until 1960, although due to some of these containing personal information, only registers dating up to 1920 are available for general research (again, for full details of access rules see the MMUHA Access Policy); material on the College of Nursing which includes nursing certificates and badges; records relating to College of Nursing commemorative events; the Mater Nurses Home and some Bord Altranais material such as reports and newsletters. The ‘Education’ series includes pupil registers from the opening of the Mater in 1861 to the mid twentieth century, and student and clinical teaching staff attendance books from 1886 until the 1950’s. Only pupil registers dating up to 1920 are available for general research; for full details of access rules see the MMUHA Access Policy. There is also a large series on ‘Hospital Premises and Project Development’ currently containing information on the construction of the Mater Hospital during the late 1850’s-1860’s; the 1937 Chapel build; and the re-development of the Eccles Street Mater Hospital properties. The ‘Hospital Culture & Ephemera’ series contains material relating to the social and cultural life of the Mater hospital; namely material published by the Mater including various published books on the history of the hospital; and a set of newsletters produced by the hospital staff and management containing news and social events from 1966-2014. The ‘Audio-Visual’ series currently contains black and white and colour photographs of the Mater campus as well as the Mater Rugby Football Club. Finally, the ‘Objects’ series contains a small selection of medical equipment including the Edward T Freeman collection, and the ‘Commemorative Objects/Glassware’ subseries currently containing presentation glassware presented to mark special Hospital events or as retirement gifts. Partial records of the Mater Private Nursing Home, currently the Mater Private Hospital, are also contained in the MMUH archive. These consist primarily of financial records, namely general Private Hospital financial accounts dating from 1959-1978; patient account ledgers dated 1956-1975; salary records dated 1959-1979; and patient admission registers 1925-1959 and 1973-1986. 1861–