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Our library of webcasts contain recordings of events held by the Heritage Centre relating to the history of medicine and the medical profession in Ireland

Featured Webcasts

“In the midst of the Trouble area during rebellion”: Gender and Trauma on the Homefront of the Easter Rising

2022 Kirkpatrick History of Medicine award winner

Dr Bridget Keown

June 2022 30 min 31 sec

MindReading: Plagues, Panics and Physicians

Exploring how literature can help when we experience illness and how literature has reflected the unfortunate recurrence of pandemics throughout human history

Dr Muireann O'Cinneide, Prof Jim Lucey, Dr Katherine Furman, Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, Harriet Wheelock

2021 60 mins

Webcast Library

The webcast library is divided by theme, each box taking you to a series of talks on that topic.

Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award

All years of presentations for the Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award

2012-2022 25 mins each

The Hospital Pass: 140 years of the Dublin Hospitals Rugby Cup

A celebration of Ireland's oldest rugby cup

2019 90 mins

40th Anniversary of the Faculty of Pathology

A series of short talk on the history and development of pathology in Ireland

2021-2022 5-10 mins each

MindReading: Plagues, Panics and Physicians

Explore how literature can help when we experience illness and pandemics

2021 5 talks, 30 mins each

Charles Lucas Memorial Lectures

The Lucas Memorial Lectures explore the history of pharmacy in Ireland

2016-2019 4 talks, 30 mins each

The quest for a vaccine. Hopes, hesitancy & history

Vaccination history, the 1919 flu pandemic & the search for a COVID-19 vaccine

Oct 2020 4 talks, 25 mins each

Centenary of the founding of St Ultan's Hospital

The history of the hospital and extraordinary women who founded it

2019 7 talks, 25 mins each

From Man-Midwife to Female Master

350 years of obstetricians and gynaecologists in Ireland

2018 4 talks, 25 mins each

350 years a Royal College

Exploring the College in 1667, and its role in the admission of women to medicine

2017 6 talks, 30 mins each

1916 War and Revolution

Exploring the impact of the 1916 Rising and Battle of the Somme on Irish medicine

2016 6 talks, 30 mins each

World War I and Irish Medicine

Surgery, hospital care and the individuals experience

2015 6 talks, 30 mins each

Medicine and architecture

From the 19th century to contemporary trends in medicine and architecture

2014 8 talks, 30 mins each

Tercentenary of the founding of Dun's Library

The life and legacy of Sir Patrick Dun, from witchcraft to medical education

2013 6 talks, 25 mins each

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