Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45

Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781526108234
ISBN-13 : 1526108232
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45 by : David Durnin

This book explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War. It examines the physical, mental and emotional impact of conflict on Irish political and social life, as well as medical, scientific and official interventions in Irish health matters. The contributors put forward the case that warfare and political unrest profoundly shaped Irish experiences of medicine and health, and that Irish political, social and economic contexts added unique contours to those experiences not evident in other countries. In pursuing these themes, the book offers an original and focused intervention into a central, but so far unexplored, area of Irish medical history.

Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict 1914-45

Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict 1914-45
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Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 0719097851
ISBN-13 : 9780719097850
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict 1914-45 by : David Durnin

A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.

The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War

The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9783030179595
ISBN-13 : 3030179591
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War by : David Durnin

This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. It assesses the extent of its involvement in the conflict while also interrogating the effect of global war on the development of Ireland’s domestic medical infrastructure, especially its hospital network. The study explores the factors that encouraged Ireland’s medical personnel to join the British Army medical services and uncovers how Irish hospital governors, in the face of increasing staff shortages and economic inflation, ensured that Ireland’s voluntary hospital network survived the war. It also considers how Ireland’s wartime doctors reintegrated into an Irish society that had experienced a profound shift in political opinion towards their involvement in the conflict and subsequently became embroiled in its own Civil War. In doing so, this book provides the first comprehensive study of the effect of the First World War on the medical profession in Ireland.

Healthcare and the Troubles

Healthcare and the Troubles
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781837642779
ISBN-13 : 183764277X
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Healthcare and the Troubles by : Ruth Duffy

This book provides the first detailed study of healthcare during the period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998). While there have been some studies of the effects of conflict in the context of Northern Ireland, to date there have been no in-depth histories of the impact of the Troubles on healthcare and the experiences of healthcare professionals. Ruth Duffy's work combines analysis of archival research and oral history interviews to reveal the widespread impact of the conflict on healthcare facilities, their staff, and patients, as well as the broader societal implications of providing services during the Troubles. The book allows the voices of those who worked on the frontline to be heard for the first time, as well as exploring important issues such as medical ethics and neutrality. It offers new and valuable insights into the cost of the Northern Ireland conflict and its legacy today.

Irish Women and the Great War

Irish Women and the Great War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9781108871679
ISBN-13 : 1108871674
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Synopsis Irish Women and the Great War by : Fionnuala Walsh

This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various different forms, such as nursing wounded soldiers, preparing hospital supplies and parcels of comforts, undertaking auxiliary military roles in port areas or behind the lines, and producing weapons of war. However, the war's impact was also felt beyond direct mobilisation, affecting women's household management, family relations, standard of living, and work conditions and opportunities. Drawing on extensive research in archives in Ireland and Britain, Walsh brings women's wartime experience out of the historical shadow and examines welfare and domestic life, bereavement, social morality, employment, war service, politicisation, and demobilisation to challenge ideas of emancipation and reflect upon the significant impact of the Great War on Irish society.

Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39

Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781526140074
ISBN-13 : 1526140071
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39 by : Michael Robinson

This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context.

Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022

Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9783031403453
ISBN-13 : 3031403452
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022 by : Rachael Sealy Lynch

This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.

Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949

Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949
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Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781789621846
ISBN-13 : 1789621844
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949 by : Brian Hughes

This book brings together new research on loyalism in the 26 counties that would become the Irish Free State. It covers a range of topics and experiences, including the Third Home Rule crisis in 1912, the revolutionary period, partition, independence and Irish participation in the British armed and colonial service up to the declaration of the Republic in 1949. The essays gathered here examine who southern Irish loyalists were, what loyalism meant to them, how they expressed their loyalism, their responses to Irish independence and their experiences afterwards. The collection offers fresh insights and new perspectives on the Irish Revolution and the early years of southern independence, based on original archival research. It addresses issues of particular historiographical and political interest during the ongoing 'Decade of Centenaries', including revolutionary violence, sectarianism, political allegiance and identity and the Irish border, but, rather than ceasing its coverage in 1922 or 1923, this book - like the lives with which it is concerned - continues into the first decades of southern Irish independence. CONTRIBUTORS: Frank Barry, Elaine Callinan, Jonathan Cherry, Seamus Cullen, Ian d'Alton, Sean Gannon, Katherine Magee, Alan McCarthy, Pat McCarthy, Daniel Purcell, Joseph Quinn, Brian M. Walker, Fionnuala Walsh, Donald Wood

The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture

The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9783319313887
ISBN-13 : 3319313886
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture by : Fionnuala Dillane

This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain – whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated – is culturally coded. Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland that features in all of the essays gathered here. This collection offers new paradigms for understanding Ireland’s literary and cultural history.

Spiritual Wounds

Spiritual Wounds
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Publisher : Merrion Press
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9781788551670
ISBN-13 : 1788551672
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Spiritual Wounds by : Síobhra Aiken

This book challenges the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) was followed by a ‘traumatic silence’. It achieves this by opening an alternative archive of published testimonies which were largely produced in the 1920s and 1930s; testimonies were written by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, in both English and Irish. Nearly all have eluded sustained scholarly attention to date. However, the act of smuggling private, painful experience into the public realm, especially when it challenged official memory making (or even forgetting), demanded the cautious deployment of self-protective narrative strategies. As a result, many testimonies from the Irish Civil War emerge in non-conventional, hybridised and fictionalised forms of life writing. This book re-introduces a number of these testimonies into public debate. It considers contemporary understandings of mental illness and how a number of veterans – both men and women – self-consciously engaged in projects of therapeutic writing as a means to ‘heal’ the ‘spiritual wounds’ of civil war. It also outlines the prevalence of literary representations of revolutionary sexual violence, challenging the assumptions that sexual violence during the Irish revolution was either ‘rare’ or ‘hidden’.