Dear all,
The ESHSI is holdings its annual conference in Belfast on
the topic ‘Medicine Science and Society in Ireland’. The
programme is below, for more details see
http://eh.net/eshsi/.
Best
Aoife
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Annual Conference, 2006
‘Medicine Science and Society in Ireland’
Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
Day 1: Friday, 17 November
From 12.30pm: Registration, Foyer, Peter Froggatt Centre
1.30pm-3.15pm: Parallel Sessions
(1) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 206: Science and Religion
‘Presbyterians and science in Ireland before 1874’
Dr Andrew Holmes, School of History and Anthropology,
Queen’s University Belfast
‘A Nest of Heresy: Walter McDonald, Science and the
Catholic Clergy in Ireland.’
Dr John Privilege, Department of History and International
Affairs, University of Ulster
‘Irish Catholicism and Science, 1931-1949: discordant
harmony’
Dr Don O’Leary, University College Cork
(2) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 302: Public Health in the
Republic of Ireland
‘“Flat earthers vs. Murderers of children?”: The
fluoridation debate of the 1960s’
Dr Tom Feeney, School of History and Archives, University
College Dublin
‘Medicine, Politics, and Hierarchy: Myths about the
Mother and Child Scheme’
Dr Elizabeth Keane, Eton College
‘A straining of public relations: Seán MacEntee and the
Irish Medical Association, 1957-65’
Dr Andrew McCarthy, Department of History, University
College Cork
3.15-3.45pm: Tea & Coffee, Foyer Peter Froggatt Centre
3.45-4.15pm: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland,
Annual General Meeting, Peter Froggatt Centre Room 206
4.30-6.00pm: Peter Froggatt Centre, Lecture Theatre 209:
Connell Lecture
Professor Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge [Title
TBA]
6.00-7.00pm: [Location?] Wine reception and launch of
pamphlets in ‘Studies in Irish Economic and Social
History’ series
The Irish in Britain 1800-1914, by Donald M. MacRaild
The Poor Law in Ireland 1838-1948, by Virginia Crossman
7.30pm: Conference dinner (not included in conference fee)
Day 2: Saturday, 18 November
9.00-10.45am: Parallel Sessions
(1) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 210: Public Health in 19th
Century Ireland
‘Public health, sanitation and housing conditions in the
west of Ireland, 1891-1915’
Dr Ciara Breathnach, Department of History, University of
Limerick
‘Riot, smallpox and the politics of public health in
mid-Victorian Ireland’
Dr Mel Cousins, Department of History, Oxford Brookes
University
‘Lock Hospitals, Venereal Disease and Gender in Pre-Famine
Ireland’
Dr Laurence M. Geary, Department of History, University
College Cork.
(2) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 211: Science and Medicine in
the 18th and 19th Centuries
‘“Chattering charlatan” or pioneer of public science?:
The case of the Reverend William Richardson (1740-1820)’
Dr Allan Blackstock, School of History and International
Affairs, University of Ulster
‘Daniel O’Sullivan (1760-1796): An Irish military
physician in late colonial Mexico’
Dr Fiona Clark, Department of History, St Patrick’s
College, Drumcondra (Irish Research Council for Humanities &
Social Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellow)
‘“I was right glad to be rid of it”: Dental medical
practice in eighteenth-century Ireland’
Dr James Kelly, Department of History, St Patrick’s
College, Drumcondra
10.45-11.00am: Tea & Coffee
11.00am-12.45pm: Parallel sessions:
(1) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 210: Public Health in 20th
Century Ireland
‘Nuisance and coercion: nomads and public health policy
in twentieth-century Ireland’
Dr Aoife Bhreatnach, Department of History, National
University of Ireland Maynooth
‘Public health services for women in Dublin and Belfast,
1939-1946’
Dr Mary Muldowney, School of History, Trinity College Dublin
‘“A Conspiracy of Ignorance and Silence”: Venereal
Disease and Public Opinion in independent Ireland
1940-1951’
Dr Susannah Riordan, School of History and Archives,
University College Dublin
(2) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 211: Medicine, Science and
Learning in 19th Century Ireland
‘“The most important innovation of all”: agriculture
education in the Queen’s Colleges, 1849-65’
Dr Juliana Adelman, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
‘A ‘poor man’s university’?: The Museum of Irish
Industry, Robert Kane and scientific education in the Dublin
of the 1850s and 1860s.’
Dr Clara Cullen, School of History and Archives, University
College Dublin
‘George Sigerson as irish medical man and public
intellectual’
Dr James McGeachie, School of History and International
Affairs, University of Ulster
12.45-1.30pm: Lunch, Foyer Peter Froggatt Centre (included
in conference fee)
1.30-3.15pm: Parallel sessions
(1) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 210: Medicine and Science in
19th Century Ireland
‘The appliance of science: changing functions of science
in a developing economy, Belfast 1780-1900’
Dr Ruth Bayles, School of History and Anthropology,
Queen’s University Belfast
‘Farmers, blacksmiths and cures for animals in early
nineteenth century Ireland’
Dr Patricia A. Lynch, School of Languages and Cultural
Studies, University of Limerick
‘Antiquarian, Academic, or Practical? Geology in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland’
Professor William H. Mulligan, Jr., Department of History,
Murray State University, Kentucky
(2) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 211: Post-graduate panel
‘The impact of the Anatomy Act (1832) in Ireland: Pauper
bodies and the Galway School of Anatomy’. Ina Brackmann,
University of Trier, Germany
‘Sir Charles Cameron: the impact of his work on the
living conditions of the Dublin poor, 1862-1921’, Lydia
Carroll, School of History, Trinity College Dublin
‘The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Belfast’, Patricia
Marsh, School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s
University Belfast
3.15-3.30pm: Tea & Coffee
3.30-5.15pm: Parallel Sessions
(1) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 210: Medicine, Healthcare and
Society
‘Medicine and the making of the Irish middle-class:
medicine and migration, 1860-1911’
Professor Greta Jones, School of History and International
Affairs, University of Ulster
‘Positioning the Healthcare Sector in Popular Culture’
Professor Jim Malone, Department of Medical Physics and
Bioengineering,
St James’s Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin
‘The development of the Irish hospital library service’
Dr Marie Coleman, School of History and Anthropology,
Queen’s University Belfast
(2) Peter Froggatt Centre Room 211: Psychiatry and
Psychology
Physical illness and mental suffering: the health concerns
of suicidal individuals in post-Famine Ireland.’
Dr Georgina Laragy, Department of History, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth
‘Criminal lunacy in nineteenth century Ireland:
Medico-legal debates and outcomes’
Dr Pauline M. Prior, School of Sociology, Social Policy,
Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast
‘Psychology, propaganda and historiography: depictions of
Irish revolutionaries, 1916-1923’, Claire McGrath Guerin,
School of History, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Aoife Bhreatnach
Department of History
NUI Maynooth
Co Kildare
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