Apothecaries in Dublin were first organized as members of the 1446 Guild of Barbers, with St Mary Magdelene as the patron saint.

The Company of Apothecaries’ Hall now shares premises with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on Kildare Street, Dublin.

The Barbers’ Guild was founded in 1446 by a charter of Henry VI (25 Henry VI) (the earliest royal or secular medical foundation in Britain or Ireland, before equivalent civic establishments by the City of Edinburgh in 1505, and by the City of London in 1462), and it was united with Surgeons in 1576 by a charter of Elizabeth I (19 Eliz.

[7] He was born at Curragh Chase according to Burke's, the son of John "of Glangoole" Hunt and Margaret Bowles, his second wife.

[5] Although it cannot exercise its original functions of teaching, qualifying and regulating medical practitioners, The Company of Apothecaries’ Hall continues to the present day as one of only two direct extant successors of a medieval Dublin guild.

[3][10] The Guild of St Luke met at the Three Stags’ Heads Tavern on Eustace Street, Dublin.

In 1837, the medical school of the Apothecaries’ Hall was established in Cecilia Street, Dublin, which received the necessary recognition from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

The Company of Apothecaries’ Hall is now housed by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland at its premises on Kildare Street.