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Following the creation of the Irish Free State the Royal Hospital was considered as a potential home for Oireachtas Éireann, the new Irish national parliament. Eventually, it was decided to keep parliament in its temporary home in Leinster House. [13] The Hospital remained the home of a dwindling number of soldiers until it closed in 1927. [8]
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is housed in the 17th-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The Royal Hospital was founded in 1684 by James Butler, the Duke of Ormonde and Viceroy to Charles II, as a home for retired soldiers and continued in that use for almost 250 years. The Royal Hospital is a striking location for displaying modern art.
Kilmainham's foundation dates to the early Christian period, with the monastery of Cell Maignenn (Cill Mhaighneann in modern Irish) established by the year 606. [1] By 795, the ecclesiastical site, located on the ridge of land at the confluence of the Liffey and the Camac, may still have been the only substantial structure along the Liffey's banks.
While in Dublin, Leonard Cohen and his band were the first to play an open-air concert at IMMA Royal Hospital Kilmainham ground. In 2009, the performances were awarded with Ireland's Meteor Music Award as the best international live performance of the year. [ 15 ]
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Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, a former hospital in Dublin, founded in 1743 as a hospital for incurables, then for venereal disease sufferers from 1792, and closed and demolished in 1949 Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin, a 1684 built retirement home for soldiers, restored in 1984 as the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
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