James Connolly nuked by British consultancy

luckat

Apparently, according to the radio, a British consultancy has recommended that the James Connolly Memorial Hospital should delete the name of James Connolly. There's an article in the Sunday Independent today reporting on it.

RobertFoster

So, it'll just be called Memorial Hospital?

mike65

From sindo

The proposal, to rename the James Connolly Memorial Hospital in Dublin, is part of a strategic plan for the newly developed hospital drawn-up by management working in tandem with UK consultants.

The report suggests upgrading the Dublin hospital to university status and renaming it Blanchardstown Hospital or BlanchardstownUniversity Hospital.

It also recommends that, instead of having the whole hospital named after the socialist leader, a new wing should be named the James Connolly Memorial Suite.

The plan to drop James Connolly's name from the hospital's title has infuriated socialists. Labour TD Joan Burton said: "They are trying to tidy James Connolly away and this is a sign of the new Ireland."

Not the crime of the century...

Mike.

luckat

Not unless you know about Connolly. Connolly was for all of his adult life one of the very few defenders of Irish working people, one of the most downtrodden groups in the world.

He is also one of the founders of our country.

If you want to know about Connolly, apart from various biographies, you could read Padraig Yeates's excellent book Lockout, about the 1913 lockout, when the Dublin bosses starved out workers who were seeking a decent wage.

luckat

RobertFoster wrote:

So, it'll just be called Memorial Hospital?

Perhaps they might rename it Lest We Forget.

Capt'n Midnight

Jameses is what it's called can't see that changing that short of closing it down.

cf. the ioneer

luckat

Capt'n, Jameses is St James's Hospital in the south inner city of Dublin. James Connolly Memorial is in Blanch. I don't think Connolly's been sainted yet.

Crucifix

Surely our great Socialist leader Bertie won't allow it!?</sarcasm>

gandalf

Hmmm they shouldn't rename it. He is part of our history and a Irish hero (eventhough he was scottish ).

Calling the hospital by the name Blanchardstown now that is a crime

luckat

Born in Scotland of Irish parents.

Capt'n Midnight

luckat wrote:

Capt'n, Jameses is St James's Hospital in the south inner city of Dublin. James Connolly Memorial is in Blanch. I don't think Connolly's been sainted yet.

D'oh
so what do the locals call it then ? (apart from Blanch)

Pet

Bloody poms, of course they want to get rid of his name..

mackerski

I always thought it was a bit odd to name a hospital after a guy whose most celebrated act involved killing people. I can't say I've ever accorded the place its full name myself.

Dermot

John R

Paying these tossers money to come up with this rubbish is just such a great use of public money.
They would be much better use to us if they were given a mop and bucket and told to clean the hospitals, that way people going for minor procedures might stand a better chance of coming out of hospital without having contracted MRSA or some other avoidable life threatening infection.

Blisterman

I say they should so at work, there won't be confusion between Blanchardstown and James Connoly hospital.

luckat

Here's some of Connolly's own writing, on the eve of the Lockout:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1913/08/lckoutev.htm

(One line from it: "The Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union has created an army of intelligent self-reliant men, abhorring the old arts of the toady, the lickspittle, and the crawler and trusting alone to the disciplined use of their power to labour or to withdraw their labour to assert and maintain their right as men.")

stevenmu

John R wrote:

Paying these tossers money to come up with this rubbish is just such a great use of public money.
They would be much better use to us if they were given a mop and bucket and told to clean the hospitals, that way people going for minor procedures might stand a better chance of coming out of hospital without having contracted MRSA or some other avoidable life threatening infection.

A good point, this is exactly what's wrong with the health service, instead of opening beds or hiring doctors and nurses they're throwing money away on crap like this. At the end of the day noboy really cares what it's called, it's a hospital, as long as sick people go in one end and healthy people come out the other that's all that matters.

tony 2 tone

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

D'oh
so what do the locals call it then ? (apart from Blanch)

James Connolly, simple as that....

mackerski

tony 2 tone wrote:

James Connolly, simple as that....

That's not what this local calls it. Or anyone else I know.

Dermot

tony 2 tone

mackerski wrote:

That's not what this local calls it. Or anyone else I know.

Dermot

Is this gonna turn into a fight over who is more "local"?

Any one I've delt with when I was working in as a doctors receptionist calls it that.

So what do you call it?

mackerski

tony 2 tone wrote:

Is this gonna turn into a fight over who is more "local"?

Any one I've delt with when I was working in as a doctors receptionist calls it that.

So what do you call it?

"The hospital". Or "Blanchardstown Hospital".

ballooba

mackerski wrote:

I always thought it was a bit odd to name a hospital after a guy whose most celebrated act involved killing people. I can't say I've ever accorded the place its full name myself.

Dermot

Hooray for education!!!
:rolleyes: