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Fri 12 Dec 2009Lot swept under carpet in hospitals' lottery
JOHN S DOYLEreviews The Irish SweepBy Marie Coleman University College Dublin Press 302pp, €60/€28
IT IS not widely known now that for nearly 60 years the building and equipping of hospitals in Ireland was largely paid for by American and British people buying tickets for a horse race.
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