Winning Entries to the History of Medicine Research and RCPI Student Architecture Competitions
RCPI's historic home at No. 6 Kildare Street has been a veritable hive of activity so far this week, with events every day as part of the annual St Luke's Symposium. On Tuesday 14 October we hosted the final of the RCPI History of Medicine Research Award. The award, which is now in its fourth year, aims to promote research into, and public awareness of, the history of medicine in Ireland.
This year's four shortlisted finalists were:
Stephen Bance - 'A lonely furrow in virgin soil': the evolution of aftercare institutions for poliomyelitis in Ireland, 1950-1968
Michael Dwyer - The Ring College Immunisation Disaster
Kieran Fitzpatrick - Examining medical practice and its educational, social and political contexts through the Indian career of Charles Sibthorpe, c. 1870-1900
Ailish Veale - 'A class of her own': Negotiating religious and medical identities in Ireland and on the Missions, 1945-1960'.
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Prof John Crowe, President of RCPI, congratulates Ailish Veale, winner of
the History of Medicine Research Award
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All four shortlisted finalists had 15 minutes to present their
research paper, followed by questions from the judging panel and the audience. The presentations were very well researched, informative and engaging, and judges and audience alike were very impressed with the overall standard. In the end, the judging panel had to choose a winner: this was Ailish Veale, who was presented with the award by Prof John Crowe, President of RCPI, at a reception following the presentations.
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| Prof Crowe talks to entrants to the Student Architecture Competition |
Another competition run by RCPI Heritage Centre this year was a Design and Ideas Competition for Architecture Students. In this competition, students were asked to re-imagine the building of No. 6 Kildare Street, and create a new design based on the original brief from 1860. Students' entries to the competition were placed on display to the public on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th October and stimulated great interest amongst the visiting public. The competition judges were impressed by the creativity and original thinking displayed in all of the students' designs. The winner they chose on this occasion was Dermot Horgan, architecture student in CCAE Cork School of Architecture, for his design entitled 'Re-Fractured Urban Block'.
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Sectional perspective of Dermot Horgan's [Re] Fractured Urban Block, the
winning entry in the RCPI Design and Ideas Competition for Architecture Students
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We would like to congratulate Ailish and Dermot, and thank all of the entrants to both competitions.