The committal of two Mallow children to an industrial school in 1893

Children, childhood and Irish society

1500 to the present

Maria Luddy & James Smith editors

Studies of Irish children’s literature are relatively numerous in Ireland, and yet the study of children and childhood, and the concepts associated with these w…

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

Gary A. Boyd

Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dubli…

Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine

Ciarán Reilly

‘The most in-depth study of the effects of the Famine on a landed estate and its community … With the help of this book, we are brought deep inside the actualit…

The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth-century Cork

Neil Cronin

In 1820, the surgical management of children with bladder stones in the South Infirmary was criticised by a prominent Cork surgeon, giving rise to a furious and…