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The Irish Sweep: A History of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, 1930-87
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The Irish hosptials sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals for over fifty years. Apart from its role in bringing millions of pounds of foreign currency into Ireland to build new hospitals and provide employment, it also contributed to the development of Irish advertising and broadcasting, horseracing, the growth of Irish business and commercial sponsorhsip of sport.
But that was not the whole story. Marie Coleman also digs deep into the murkier side of the Irish Sweep. She successfully reveals scandals, skulduggery and gangsterism, which all played their part in the sweepstakes, exposing the blind eyes that were turned to its shortcomings and exploring the extent to which these failings ultimately damaged the Irish health services by postpoining necessary reforms.
Using original archive material, The Irish Sweep successfully draws together these disparate aspects of the sweepstake-its social and economic importance in indpendent Ireland, its contribution to the development of Irish health services, and its illicit operation outside Ireland-to construct the first detailed and comprehensive history of an iconic institution.
`Hugely impressive...always engaging, often fascinating, original, fluidly written and very well researches'. Diarmaid Ferriter
But that was not the whole story. Marie Coleman also digs deep into the murkier side of the Irish Sweep. She successfully reveals scandals, skulduggery and gangsterism, which all played their part in the sweepstakes, exposing the blind eyes that were turned to its shortcomings and exploring the extent to which these failings ultimately damaged the Irish health services by postpoining necessary reforms.
Using original archive material, The Irish Sweep successfully draws together these disparate aspects of the sweepstake-its social and economic importance in indpendent Ireland, its contribution to the development of Irish health services, and its illicit operation outside Ireland-to construct the first detailed and comprehensive history of an iconic institution.
`Hugely impressive...always engaging, often fascinating, original, fluidly written and very well researches'. Diarmaid Ferriter
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Marie Coleman is a Lecturer in Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast.
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