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80 million people globally claim Irish ancestry – why the release of 1926 Irish census records is so momentous
By Ciara Breathnach, Professor of Irish Gender History, University College Cork One hundred years after it was conducted, the first full census of independent Ireland is being released for free online. These nearly 3 million records will be of great significance to Ireland’s population, and a global diaspora of some 80 million claiming Irish ancestry.
80 million people globally claim Irish ancestry – why the release of 1926 Irish census records is so momentus
One hundred years after it was conducted, the first full census of independent Ireland is being released for free online. These nearly 3 million records will be of great significance to Ireland’s population, and a global diaspora of some 80 million claiming Irish ancestry. As well as providing insight into socioeconomic circumstances following the establishment of Saorstát Éireann (the Irish Free State) in 1922, the 1926 census holds several keys to unravelling Ireland’s complicated past.
"Darkest Ireland" and the burning of Bridget Cleary
Analysis: the criminal trial following the 1895 torture and murder of the Tipperary woman was a media sensation home and away. By Ciara Breathnach, University of Limerick and Andrew Sneddon, Ulster University Recent research has shown that many Irish people believed in the supernatural even in the early 20th century. Modernity, marked by technological, medical, communication and scientific advances, did not halt belief in witchcraft, magical healing, divination or ghosts.
The huge human cost of tuberculosis on one Irish city
Analysis: Limerick's experience with the chronic disease and its related social stigma are the focus of a new exhibition By Ciara Breathnach, Stuart Clancy and Rachel Murphy, University of Limerick Tuberculosis is a chronic disease, its slow pace contrasting sharply with the acute, rapid onset of short duration diseases like influenza. Although it can attack several parts of the body, it is most commonly associated with lung disease.
Beyond the Bullets: making the new documentary series
What was life like for ordinary people in Ireland in 1921, 1922 and 1923? A new documentary series looks beyond the bullets to find out, as historian Ciara Breathnach explains New year's eve 1920 marked the close of a brutal chapter of the War of Independence, particularly in Munster where martial law prevailed. Nationalist-leaning newspapers like the Irish Independent carried the grim tallies of injuries coupled with the names of casualties both young and old.
Death of a lord mayor: Terence MacSwiney's 1920 hunger strike
Analysis: the Lord Mayor Of Cork's hunger strike and death 100 years ago posed medical, ecumenical and legal quandaries Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, began his hunger strike on his arrest on August 12th 1920. Six days later, he was court martialled, sentenced for sedition and transferred from Cork to Brixton jail. The story drew global and multi-lingual newspaper coverage, and is one of the earliest examples of an extended, medically-documented hunger strike.
How the Irish government fought the TB epidemic in the 1940s
Updated / Monday, 23 Mar 2020 16:40 Wexford Street in Dublin in the late 1940s: "at a time when other European countries had seen a mortality decline after the Second World War, Ireland was still in the grip of a tuberculosis epidemic".
Census: on paper, by governments, is still best
CORRESPONDENCE 07 January 2020 We agree that hard-copy censuses are crucial to public-health surveys in developing economies (see Nature 574, 296; 2019). In our view, they should be continued and not replaced by online ‘big data’ collection. Furthermore, your suggestion that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — as opposed to governments — could carry out censuses would pose several risks.
"Darkest Ireland" and the burning of Bridget Cleary
Updated / Thursday, 22 Oct 2020 07:47 "Cleary was burned to death by her husband and family members, who claimed that they had done so to force fairies to return Cleary, whom the family believed had stolen and replaced with a changeling." Analysis: the criminal trial following the 1895 torture and murder of the Tipperary woman was a media sensation home and away.
Gender, Medicine and the Body
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