Dr Grace O'Keeffe
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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Um, Aylred, I don't know, was he, you know, did he go on pilgrimage?
He certainly appears in the witness lists of many deeds in Dublin with quite a lot of very important people.
So he was well integrated in society.
The name Aylred, is it Anglo Saxon?
Is it uh is it Scandinavian?
We're not really sure.
But Aylred seems like a pretty a pretty decent kind of guy.
Himself and his wife set up this hospital, which is a great thing to do.
It's very typical of its time.
It's set in the just outside the walls of the city.
The idea is that it's for the sick and the poor.
When we say hospital, think of that in a very, very loose term.
Um, it's really a place which probably provided a bed and food for people who've fallen on on hard times.
It did have a garden, so definitely w I would definitely say that it provided some kind of medicinal help, probably in the more herbal end of things rather than the the surgical end of things.
But then you
Start getting into the 14th century and the 15th century, and the picture changes a little bit.
And it changes for a few reasons.
Um, in the 12th and 13th century, these big types of religious houses like St.
John's, like St.
Thomas's, like St.
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