HistoryHub
Connecting past and present
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.
An inquiry into the role of the credit system in the making of the 1937 Constitution’s economic provisions by Thomas Murray, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Politics and International Relations in University College Dublin.
In a podcast for the History Hub.ie podcast series Prof Michael Laffan (UCD) explores the national and international circumstances of Ireland before Easter Week, 1916. He looks at the reasons for the Rising from the perspectives of public opinion, popularity and democracy.
Executive Secrecy and Access to Policy: Lessons from the Past in Irish Legal and Political History by Jennifer M. Kavanagh (Waterford Institute of Technology & Trinity College Dublin).
