The Spanish flu in Ireland : a socio-economic shock to Ireland, 1918-1919 / Patricia Marsh.
Marsh, Patricia, author.
2021
RC150.6.I73 M37 2021
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Title The Spanish flu in Ireland : a socio-economic shock to Ireland, 1918-1919 / Patricia Marsh.
Author Marsh, Patricia, author.
ISBN 9783030795009 (electronic bk.)
3030795004 (electronic bk.)
9783030794996
3030794997
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79500-9
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-79500-9 doi
Call Number RC150.6.I73 M37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.5/1809041
Summary This book examines the Irish experience of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic through a detailed study of the disease in the most industrialised region of the country, the province of Ulster. By exploring the different themes of dispersion of the disease; mortality; gender; medical response and politics - and through case studies of different towns in the province of Ulster - it builds up a picture of the social, economic and political impact of influenza in Ireland. The Ulster experience of the pandemic is examined by constructing micro-histories of industrial cities and towns, along with provincial market towns and a naval port, to provide a basis for comparison of the differing approaches taken to combat the influenza outbreaks throughout Ulster. Contemporary opinion was that Ireland was considerably less affected by the war than the rest of the UK but, this book shows that the war did have a significant influence on how the influenza pandemic impacted on the Irish population from an economic, social and medical point of view. The book also explores the immediate aftermath of the pandemic and how it influenced the Irish response to the influenza scare of 1920 and the viral pandemic of Encephalitis Lethargica which was prevalent for ten years after 1918, as well as discussing what if any lessons learnt from 1918 have been applied to the present-day outbreak of Covid 19. This book will be of interest to academics in economic history, social history, Irish history and pandemic history, and those studying the effects of pandemics on the economy, health provision and pandemic preparedness. Patricia Marsh began researching the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in 2005 and completed a MA dissertation on the effect of the pandemic in Belfast in 2006. Her PhD thesis completed in 2010 was entitled 'The Effect of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic on Ulster.' She has spoken widely on the 1918-19 influenza pandemic at conferences and seminars in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Her research interests include the encephalitis lethargica epidemic in Ireland and typhoid in Belfast during the twentieth century. She worked as a Teaching assistant at Queen's University Belfast from 2008 until 2011 and was a Tutor for an Open Learning Course in Queen's University Belfast, entitled Plague, Famine and Disease in Ulster.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in economic history.
Available in Other Form SPANISH FLU IN IRELAND.
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Chapter 1 Strange malady in Spain: History of the influenza pandemic 1918-19
Chapter 2 Mysterious Malady Spreading: Origins and dissemination of influenza in Ireland
Chapter 3 Ravages of influenza: the human cost of the disease in Ireland
Chapter 4 Woe unto them that are with child: gender and influenza in Ulster
Chapter 5 The "Mystery" epidemic: Newspaper coverage of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ulster
Chapter 6 Case studies of industrial towns (Belfast, Derry, Lurgan and Portadown)
Chapter 7 Case studies of market towns (Cookstown, Clones, Newry)
Chapter 8 Case study of Naval Port and neighbouring towns (Larne and Ballyclare).

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