Events of Interest
In the coming weeks there are some notable events
occurring that would be of interest to those studying, or with an interest in, the history of medicine.
The Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland's (RAMI) History of Medicine section presents ‘Thalidomide in
Ireland 1959-1962’ by Dr Brian Cleary on Wednesday the 19th of March
at 6.15pm in Setanta House. This is a free event and you can register at the
following link http://www.rami.ie/drupal/?q=node/202
The Centre
for the History of Medicine (CHOMI) presents another lecture in the 2013/2014 seminar
series: "The most priceless possession of Protestants in this country”: the
Adelaide Hospital and upholding Protestant healthcare in Ireland 1950-1972.
This lecture will be given by Dr Robbie Roulston (UCD) at 5pm, K114 School of
History and Archives, UCD.
You can find out more about CHOMI here.
Finally, ‘Grave
Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1500-2000’ is a one day conference that will
be taking place in the Milestone Gallery in Glasnevin Cemetery on Saturday,
April 12th.
The
programme is as follows:
9.45: Opening words
10.00-11.20: Panel 1, ‘Graveyards and sermons in Dublin’
- Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, ‘You may be young enough
to live, but you are old enough to die’ Life and death in the sermons of James
Gallagher, William Gahan and Silvester Goonan
- Siobhan Doyle, The Presence of Absence in
Glasnevin Cemetery and Museum.
- Sean Murphy, St James's Graveyard: a unique
Dublin city cemetery.
11.20-11.40: tea break provided by Glasnevin Cemetery Museum
11.40-1.00pm: Panel 2, ‘Representations of Death’
- Mary Ann Bolger, The Ephemera of Eternity: the
Irish Catholic memorial card as material culture.
- Orla Fitzpatrick, Momento Mori: Photography and
Loss.
- Stuart Kinsella, Pomp and memory: commemorating
the dead at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 1500-2000.
1.00-2.00: Lunch
There will be an opportunity to get a tour of the Daniel
O’Connell crypt during lunch.
2.00- 3.20: Panel 3, ‘War and revolution’
- Paul Huddie, “That woe could wish, or vanity
devise”: Crimean War memorials in Dublin’s Anglican churches.
- Ida Milne, Stacking the coffins: the 1918-19
influenza pandemic in Dublin.
- Brian Hughes, “Well may we be proud of him”:
family responses to the deaths of the leaders of the 1916 rising.
3.20-3.40: break
3.40-5.00: Panel 4, ‘Reactions to death’
- Doireann Markham, “While Ireland holds these
graves”: state exhumations of republicans, 1923-1924.
- Ian Miller, Death, Medicine and Trauma in the
Early Twentieth-Century Irish Prisons.
- James McCafferty, A new kind of death: The
Niemba massacre and Irish military funerary ceremonial.
5.00-5.10: brief closing words
Running order is subject to small changes.