HistoryHub
Connecting past and present
As part of the ‘From Rising to Recession: Ireland’s First 100 Years and the Irish Virtual Research Library & Archive’ event, which was held in the UCD Humanities Institute in 2010, Professor Mary Daly (UCD School of History and Archives) gave this lecture on some of the fascinating 1916 material digitised as part of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)*.
Why did the Irish health service develop in the way that it did? How did small, local hospitals become so important? And was the policy focus misplaced on hospitals rather than on people’s health? In this paper Mary E. Daly argues that the Irish health service has been shaped by historical forces, some of which are now largely forgotten, even though their legacy is evident in today’s health service and in current policy debates.
Ben Tonra (UCD) invites historians to excavate the narrative(s) in which Irish neutrality has been – and continues to be – offered: not as a strategic policy option or the result of a complex set of political, diplomatic and cultural choices but simply and starkly as a more ethical state of being.
A podcast of Professor Cara Delay’s (Fulbright Fellow 2012-2013, UCD Humanities Institute) lecture – ‘’Noxious Things’: Illegal Abortion Cases in Twentieth-Century Ireland’ at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland seminar series.
We welcome contributions from historians working on all periods and themes, based in Ireland or abroad, and we accept proposals for new papers at any time.
