Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland

University of Ulster and University College, Dublin

Annual Seminar Series 2009-2010

Semester 1

Thursday 1st October
“There are no millionaires in Ireland …”. The Politics of Irish Nursing, 1917-1925
Susan McGann, Royal College of Nursing
5 pm, K114 School of History and Archives, UCD

Thursday 29th October
'A Suitably Broadminded Saint': The Westmorland Lock Hospital in the 20th Century.
Dr Susannah Riordan - University College Dublin
5 pm, K114 School of History and Archives, UCD

Thursday 19th November
Public Lecture in association with National Gallery of Ireland 'Munch, Suffering and Torment'
Lecturer Dr Dieter Buchhart, Director, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
6.30 pm, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Thursday 28th January
'From rowdy youths to marginal men: a social history of medical students in provincial England, c.1825-1939’.
Dr Jonathan Reinarz - University of Birmingham
5 pm, K114 School of History and Archives, UCD

Thursday 25th February
'Living with Mortality: A Short Stay in Switzerland'.
Prof Frank McGuinness- University College Dublin

Thursday 8th April
'Bats, Rats, and Barristers": Libel and the Radical Stylistics of Early Nineteenth-Century English Medicine'.
Dr Michael Brown - CHSTM, University of Manchester
5 pm, K114 School of History and Archives, UCD