Publications

A selection of publications about the history of the College, its Faculties and our Heritage Collections

College Histories

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 1654-1963 By Prof J D H Widdess
An interim history of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 1963-88 By Dr David Mitchell
Patients, Potions & Physicians. A social history of medicine in Ireland by Tony Farmer
Healing Touch - an illustrated history of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland By Alf McCreary

Occupational Health in Ireland - A history by Dr John M Malone
Fourty years of Public Health Medicine in Ireland 1976-2016 Edited by Dr Patrick O'Sullivan
Faculty of Pathology 1981-2021. A history of the Faculty and pathologists in Ireland Edited by Dr Katy Keohane
The Faculty of Paediatrics. Celebrating the first 40 years: 1982-2022. Edited by Prof John Murphy

The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn. A life revealed through personal writing - Mary McAuliffe and Harriet Wheelock (UCD Press, 2023).
Storytelling and poetry in the time of coronavirus - Elizabeth Barrett, Melissa Dickson, Clare Hayes-Brady and Harriet Wheelock (Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 2020:37)
The threads of history: why record your pandemic experinences for the RCPI archive? - Harriet Wheelock, Melissa Dickson and Elizabeth Barrett (Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 2020)
'Any Style but gothic': Building a home for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland - Harriet Wheelock (Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2016: 46)