 "That it is therefore our opinion a legislative measure should be sought for by us, to unite the medical profession of Ireland into a co-operation upon such principles as shall constitute them one National Faculty, and thereby identify in feelings and interests, the greater mass of provincial practitioners with their metropolitan brethren"

The group lapsed from 1846 to 1852.On 7 June 1853, another congress was held in Dublin to re-establish the Association, and in 1882 it became incorporated as the Irish Medical Association.On 1 January 1936, the IMA merged with the Irish branch of the British Medical Association to form the "Irish Free State Medical Union".