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- The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake was a lottery established in the Irish Free State in 1930 as the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake to finance hospitals. It is generally referred to as the Irish Sweepstake or Irish Sweepstakes, frequently abbreviated to Irish Sweep or Irish Sweeps. The Public Charitable Hospitals (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1930 was the act that established the lottery; as this act expired in 1934, in accordance with its terms, the Public Hospitals Acts were the legislative basis for the scheme thereafter. The main organisers were Richard Duggan, Captain Spencer Freeman and Joe McGrath. Duggan was a well known Dublin bookmaker who had organised a number of sweepstakes in the decade prior to setting up the Hospitals' Sweepstake. Captain Freeman was a Welsh-born engineer and former captain in the British Army. The ratio of winnings and charitable contributions to Sweepstake revenues proved low, and the scheme made its founders very rich. The Sweepstake administrators wielded substantial political influence, allowing the scheme to flourish before it was finally wound up in the 1980s. (en)
- Bunaíodh an carthanas, Scuabgheall Ospidéil na hÉireann, sa bhliain 1930. Tháinig an Scuabgheall chun críche i 1986 agus Alan Dukes a bhí mar Aire Airgeadais ag an am. (ga)
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- Nurses holding up the drawn "Sweepstake Tickets" in 1946 (en)
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- Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake (en)
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- Bunaíodh an carthanas, Scuabgheall Ospidéil na hÉireann, sa bhliain 1930. Tháinig an Scuabgheall chun críche i 1986 agus Alan Dukes a bhí mar Aire Airgeadais ag an am. (ga)
- The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake was a lottery established in the Irish Free State in 1930 as the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake to finance hospitals. It is generally referred to as the Irish Sweepstake or Irish Sweepstakes, frequently abbreviated to Irish Sweep or Irish Sweeps. The Public Charitable Hospitals (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1930 was the act that established the lottery; as this act expired in 1934, in accordance with its terms, the Public Hospitals Acts were the legislative basis for the scheme thereafter. (en)
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- Scuabgheall Ospidéil na hÉireann (carthanas) (ga)
- Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake (en)
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