The Royal Hospital Cemeteries: A Bodysnatching Tour

The Royal Hospital Kilmainham Military Road Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Dublin

Prior to the Anatomy Act of 1832, the only bodies that could be legally dissected by medical students and faculties were those who had been executed. But with a growing number of public and private medical schools came an increased demand for bodies. As a paupers' cemetery, Bully's Acre here at the Royal Hospital in...