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Irish Doctors in the First World War by David Durnin
‘The absence of conscription in Ireland leaves it open to young Irish practitioners to profit by the military service of English, Scottish and Welsh doctors and set up practice in the homes of the...
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Early Soviet Nursing by Susan Grant
In this month's post, Dr Susan Grant, Irish Research Council CARA Mobility Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin and University of Toronto, outlines her research project which examines nursing...
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The Irish experience of polio, 1940-70 by Stephen Bance
In this month's blog post, Stephen Bance, MA student at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, writes about his research project on the history of polio in...
View ArticleHow the poor lived: Tenements, public health and medicine in 1913
In April this year, RCPI and the Dublin City Library and Archives held a joint seminar looking at medicine and public health in 1913, as part of the Dublin One City, One Book festival. Webcasts of the...
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‘Not unlike an evil dream’: a medical student’s account of Spanish flu in the...
This month's blog post is by Dr Anne MacLellan, Director of Research at the Rotunda Hospital, who discusses the writings of Dorothy Stopford, a Dublin medical student, relating to the Spanish flu in...
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The Heritage Collections of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland by...
In this month's post, Meadhbh Murphy, archivist at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, outlines some of the College's important heritage collections.The Royal College of Surgeons Heritage...
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Cholera in Belfast in 1832 and 1848/49 by Nigel Farrell
On the 28th of February, 1832 at around midnight, Bernard Murtagh, a 34 year old cooper who resided in a lodging house on Quay Lane Belfast, a narrow street near the River Lagan, became violently ill....
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Charles Lucas (1713-1771) by Harriet Wheelock
This week marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Charles Lucas, a politician, physician and writer.Charles Lucas was born on 16thSeptember 1713. Left penniless on the death of his father, Lucas...
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‘Out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom, and the poor women residing in the...
During the 1920s, extreme close quarter living conditions took a heavy toll on the health and life expectancy of the residents of Cork city. With a population of 80,000, 18,645 of the city’s...
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‘Funding Dublin’s Hospitals c.1847-1880’ by Joseph Curran
In this month's blog post, Joseph Curran, a graduate of the MA in Social and Cultural History of Medicine at UCD, writes about his MA thesis 'Funding Dublin's Hospitals, c.1847-1880'. The blog post...
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Domestic instruction and cookery classes in early twentieth-century Ireland...
In this month's blog post, Dr Ian Miller, Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University of Ulster, writes about domestic instruction and cookery classes in...
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“Is it in a crazy-house for females that I'm landed now?” Psychiatric...
In this month's blog post, Claire Poinsot, a visiting doctoral student from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, at CHOMI last year, writes about her research on psychiatric institutions and the...
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The Crusade to ‘Conquer Cancer’ in Ireland, 1950s-70s - Smoking and Lung...
In this month's blog post, Jane Hand, a PhD student at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, writes about public health initiatives in the campaign against lung cancer in...
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Treating Measles in late Seventeenth-Century London and Dublin by...
This month, Elizabethanne Boran, librarian at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin, writes on treating measles in late seventeenth-century London and Dublin, with particular focus on the works of John...
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‘Poisons or other Noxious Things’: Women’s Illegal Abortion Strategies in...
In this month's post, Professor Cara Delay, Associate Professor at the College of Charleston, writes on women's illegal abortion strategies in twentieth-century Ireland. Abortion trials in IrelandFrom...
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‘[S]he is in a highly hysterical state. She’s a woman who resists’: the...
In this month's post, Dr Valeria Cavalli examines the theme of spiritualism in Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novel All in the Dark (1866), and what the author's warnings about the dangers of...
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A Malady of Migration: theatre production in Coventry and Dublin
At a time when the issues of migration and mental health are seldom out of the news, the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) has worked with the Centre for the History of Medicine at...
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Cows, contagion and sanitation and Victorian Dublin by Juliana Adelman
We are back after the summer break! In this month's post, Dr Juliana Adelman writes about her research on the history of animals and public health in nineteenth-century Dublin.When I began working on...
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Workshop report: Soviet healthcare in the comparative perspective by Susan Grant
In this month's blog post, Susan Grant reports on the recent 'Soviet healthcare in the comparative perspective' workshop which took place at UCD in May 2014.Historians of Soviet and medical history met...
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Childhood illness in twentieth-century Ireland by Ida Milne
In this month's blog post, Dr Ida Milne, Irish Research Council ELEVATE fellow co-funded by Marie Curie Actions, writes about her postdoctoral project on childhood illness in twentieth-century...
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