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In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in
Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great
Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted
upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population growth
that continued until the arrival of potato blight in 1845 had a
severe effect on the health of the country's population, and the
Famine itself caused around one million deaths from starvation and
disease. This was a period of great change in medical and
charitable services. In the eighteenth century the sick had come to
be regarded as the deserving poor, therefore having a better claim
to public assistance than those whose poverty was the result of
their own dissipation, idleness or vice. A network of charities
evolved in Ireland to provide free medical aid to the sick poor.
The first voluntary hospital in Dublin opened in 1718 and Geary
traces the establishment and development of voluntary hospitals and
county infirmaries throughout the country. These had a strong
Anglican ethos and bias, but after Catholic emancipation in 1829
the nepotism, sectarianism and divisive politics that were rife in
these organisations came under increasing scrutiny. Medical
practitioners saw considerable progress in the development of a
regulated profession. Geary describes developments in policy making
and legislation, culminating in the 1851 Medical Charities Act,
which he describes as part of a process that characterised the
century and more under review in this book: the unrelenting
pressure on philanthropy and private medical charity and the
inexorable shift from voluntarism to an embryonic system of state
medicine.
In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in
Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great
Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted
upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population growth
that continued until the arrival of potato blight in 1845 had a
severe effect on the health of the country's population, and the
Famine itself caused around one million deaths from starvation and
disease. This was a period of great change in medical and
charitable services. In the eighteenth century the sick had come to
be regarded as the deserving poor, therefore having a better claim
to public assistance than those whose poverty was the result of
their own dissipation, idleness or vice. A network of charities
evolved in Ireland to provide free medical aid to the sick poor.
The first voluntary hospital in Dublin opened in 1718 and Geary
traces the establishment and development of voluntary hospitals and
county infirmaries throughout the country. These had a strong
Anglican ethos and bias, but after Catholic emancipation in 1829
the nepotism, sectarianism and divisive politics that were rife in
these organisations came under increasing scrutiny. Medical
practitioners saw considerable progress in the development of a
regulated profession. Geary describes developments in policy making
and legislation, culminating in the 1851 Medical Charities Act,
which he describes as part of a process that characterised the
century and more under review in this book: the unrelenting
pressure on philanthropy and private medical charity and the
inexorable shift from voluntarism to an embryonic system of state
medicine.
Interest in nineteenth-century studies has never been greater, and
contrasts sharply with previous neglect of many aspects of that
century's history and culture. These essays by leading scholars
assess and interpret developments from 1990 onwards in the field of
nineteenth-century Irish studies, and from a wide range of
disciplinary perspectives. The book covers political, social,
religious and women's history and historical geography as well as
anthropological and sociological studies of nineteenth-century
Ireland. Further chapters cover nineteenth-century music, art
history, literature in English, Gaelic culture and language and the
Irish diaspora. This will be an invaluable research tool and
reference book for many years to come.
Contents of this volume, the fifth in a series focusing on
19th-century Ireland include: 'The Irish password is no longer
repeal but revolution': a German view of Ireland's 1848: Brigitte
Anton; Revolution from the bottom up: street balladry and memory:
Maura Cronin; Sectarianism in 1798 and in Catholic nationalist
memory: James S. Donnelly, Jr; Resistance and rebellion in the
Gaelic literary tradition from 1798 to 1848: Tom Dunne; Voicing
rebellion in Victorian fiction: Nell McCaw; 'New light' Ulster
Presbyterianism and the nationalist rhetoric of John Mitchel:
Robert Mahony; The nationalist monuments at Cork and Skibbereen:
Orlaith Mannion; The United Irish threat to early colonial
Australia: Ruan O'Donnell; Presence and absence of Wolfe Tone
during the centenary commemoration of the 1798 rebellion: Sophie
Ollivier; Three narratives of rural insurgency post-1798: Tadgh
O'Sullivan; Popular mobilisation and the rising of 1848: the clubs
of the Irish Confederation: Gary Owens; Representations of Irish
history in fiction films made prior to the 1916 Rising: Kevin
Rockett; Young Ireland and the 1798 rebellion: Sean Ryder; The
sepulchral nationalism of the Australasian 1798 commemoration: J.
Wooding.
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