Eamonn Wall
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784992781
- eISBN:
- 9781526104427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992781.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Eamonn Wall explores the methodology and reach of Robinson’s work. Even though Robinson is not connected to the academy, his work exemplifies the idea of interdisciplinarity. Wall argues that ...
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Eamonn Wall explores the methodology and reach of Robinson’s work. Even though Robinson is not connected to the academy, his work exemplifies the idea of interdisciplinarity. Wall argues that Robinson has moved slowly and respectfully, allowing him to undertake many avenues of inquiry to great effect that continues to remain relevant in Irish Studies.Less
Eamonn Wall explores the methodology and reach of Robinson’s work. Even though Robinson is not connected to the academy, his work exemplifies the idea of interdisciplinarity. Wall argues that Robinson has moved slowly and respectfully, allowing him to undertake many avenues of inquiry to great effect that continues to remain relevant in Irish Studies.
P. J. Mathews
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199609888
- eISBN:
- 9780191731778
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199609888.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Synge’s work is not easily recruitable to the kind of notional and national project envisioned by Yeats. One of the most striking aspects of his work is his intense engagement with the microscopic ...
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Synge’s work is not easily recruitable to the kind of notional and national project envisioned by Yeats. One of the most striking aspects of his work is his intense engagement with the microscopic detail and texture of place which is accompanied by an almost nonchalant disregard for major historical events. Synge’s singular and intense engagements with place is in keeping with a wider intellectual rapprochement that was taking place in the European academy at the end of the nineteenth century between the natural and human sciences. In his Wicklow essays Synge manages to avoid validating the idea of a spiritual immersion in place by locating vitality in nomadism and geographical mobility rather than in more conservative ideas of ‘contact with the soil’.Less
Synge’s work is not easily recruitable to the kind of notional and national project envisioned by Yeats. One of the most striking aspects of his work is his intense engagement with the microscopic detail and texture of place which is accompanied by an almost nonchalant disregard for major historical events. Synge’s singular and intense engagements with place is in keeping with a wider intellectual rapprochement that was taking place in the European academy at the end of the nineteenth century between the natural and human sciences. In his Wicklow essays Synge manages to avoid validating the idea of a spiritual immersion in place by locating vitality in nomadism and geographical mobility rather than in more conservative ideas of ‘contact with the soil’.
Michael Dwyer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940469
- eISBN:
- 9781786945150
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940469.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It ...
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This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria’s reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials in the fledgling Irish Free State set the eradication of diphtheria among their first national goals, and eschewing the reticence of their British counterparts, adopted anti-diphtheria immunization as their weapon of choice. An unofficial alliance between Irish medical officers and the British pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution, however, Wellcome sponsored vaccine trials in Ireland side-lined the human rights of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens: institutional children in state care. An immunization accident in County Waterford, and the death of a young girl, raised serious questions regarding the safety of the immunization process itself, resulting in a landmark High Court case and the Irish Medical Union’s twelve-year long withdrawal of immunization services. As childhood immunization is increasingly considered a lifestyle choice, rather than a lifesaving intervention, this book brings historical context to bear on current debate.Less
This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria’s reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials in the fledgling Irish Free State set the eradication of diphtheria among their first national goals, and eschewing the reticence of their British counterparts, adopted anti-diphtheria immunization as their weapon of choice. An unofficial alliance between Irish medical officers and the British pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution, however, Wellcome sponsored vaccine trials in Ireland side-lined the human rights of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens: institutional children in state care. An immunization accident in County Waterford, and the death of a young girl, raised serious questions regarding the safety of the immunization process itself, resulting in a landmark High Court case and the Irish Medical Union’s twelve-year long withdrawal of immunization services. As childhood immunization is increasingly considered a lifestyle choice, rather than a lifesaving intervention, this book brings historical context to bear on current debate.
Marianne Elliott
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310652
- eISBN:
- 9781846314155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846314155.002
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This bulk of the contributions for this collection emerged from Liverpool University's Institute of Irish Studies Peace Lecture Series, 1996–2000. The Institute of Irish Studies was established in ...
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This bulk of the contributions for this collection emerged from Liverpool University's Institute of Irish Studies Peace Lecture Series, 1996–2000. The Institute of Irish Studies was established in 1988. As well as delivering a full degree programme, it has continued the role set out by its First Director, Professor Patrick Buckland, as a bridge between the cultures of Ireland and Britain, in particular providing a neutral forum for political debate. This chapter provides an overview of the subsequent chapters.Less
This bulk of the contributions for this collection emerged from Liverpool University's Institute of Irish Studies Peace Lecture Series, 1996–2000. The Institute of Irish Studies was established in 1988. As well as delivering a full degree programme, it has continued the role set out by its First Director, Professor Patrick Buckland, as a bridge between the cultures of Ireland and Britain, in particular providing a neutral forum for political debate. This chapter provides an overview of the subsequent chapters.
Guy Beiner
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- November 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198749356
- eISBN:
- 9780191813467
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198749356.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History, Historiography
Questioning the inevitability of an inherent opposition between myth and history opens possibilities for rethinking our engagement with the past through the lens of ‘mythistory’. In the same vein, ...
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Questioning the inevitability of an inherent opposition between myth and history opens possibilities for rethinking our engagement with the past through the lens of ‘mythistory’. In the same vein, the concept of ‘vernacular historiography’ is introduced in relation to a number of related historiographical developments, namely: living history, history from below, people’s history, subaltern history, democratic history, ethnohistory, popular history, public history, applied history, everyday history, shared history, folk history, grass-roots history, as well as local and provincial history. In turn, the study of forgetting and of lieu d’oubli is identified as a new direction for advancing the field of Memory Studies and moving beyond our current understanding of lieux de mémoire. In particular, ‘social forgetting’, whereby communities try to supress recollections of inconvenient episodes in their past, is conceptualized as thriving on tensions between public reticence and muted remembrance in private. Finally, charting the forgetful remembrance of the 1798 rebellion in Ulster—known locally as ‘the Turn-Out’—is presented as an illuminating case study for coming to terms with social forgetting and vernacular historiography.Less
Questioning the inevitability of an inherent opposition between myth and history opens possibilities for rethinking our engagement with the past through the lens of ‘mythistory’. In the same vein, the concept of ‘vernacular historiography’ is introduced in relation to a number of related historiographical developments, namely: living history, history from below, people’s history, subaltern history, democratic history, ethnohistory, popular history, public history, applied history, everyday history, shared history, folk history, grass-roots history, as well as local and provincial history. In turn, the study of forgetting and of lieu d’oubli is identified as a new direction for advancing the field of Memory Studies and moving beyond our current understanding of lieux de mémoire. In particular, ‘social forgetting’, whereby communities try to supress recollections of inconvenient episodes in their past, is conceptualized as thriving on tensions between public reticence and muted remembrance in private. Finally, charting the forgetful remembrance of the 1798 rebellion in Ulster—known locally as ‘the Turn-Out’—is presented as an illuminating case study for coming to terms with social forgetting and vernacular historiography.
