Coronavirus: forgotten lessons of the Spanish flu pandemic
There’s a ‘collective amnesia’ in Ireland around the deadly outbreak of 1918-19
Breast versus bottle debate raged in 19th-century Ireland
From the Archive: A reluctance among mothers to breastfeed coupled with poor hygiene was blamed for many infant deaths
Dublin in 1886: The most unhealthy of any great towns in Ireland
Newspaper notices and accounts of lectures at the time shed some insight into social conditions and the state of the nation’s health
Ireland’s slum landlords have little to fear, today as a century ago
Diarmaid Ferriter: Politicians’ threats have never meant much in practice
A call from a ‘quack’ and a lethal dose of whiskey and mustard
In 1904 a ‘tramp’ named Thomas Coyne learned Mary Carrol was ill and insisted he could cure her
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