The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

The alchemy of medicine and print

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin

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This volume arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward...
Author/Editor: Danielle Westerhof, editor

The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth-century Cork

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In 1820, the surgical management of children with bladder stones in the South Infirmary was criticised by a prominent Cork surgeon, giving rise to a furious and...
Author/Editor: Neil Cronin

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

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Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dublin as an ideal Protestant...
Author/Editor: Gary A. Boyd

Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine

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‘The most in-depth study of the effects of the Famine on a landed estate and its community … With the help of this book, we are brought...
Author/Editor: Ciarán Reilly

The role of the hospital in medieval England

Gift-giving and the spiritual economy

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Hospitals in medieval England gave and received gifts as part of the spiritual economy, engaging in an ongoing process of gift-exchange and reciprocity with the rich, as hospital...
Author/Editor: Sheila Sweetinburgh

Dublin, 1930–1950

The emergence of the modern city

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Using a great variety of source materials, and including a large number of photographs and other images, this book builds a picture of Dublin between 1930 and...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady