A History of Epidemics in Ireland

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

History, Interviews, War Of Independence, Ireland, Norman Invasion, Vikings, Great Famine, Great Hunger, Irish History

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Recently I discovered that my great great grandmother Catherine Murphy lost her sister and her daughter within two days of each other in February 1919 during the Great Flu pandemic. This highlighted how disease has long been part of our history. For this episode I decided to catch up with the historian John Dorney who recently published an article on the history of epidemics in Ireland. You can find John's article on epidemics in Ireland and also his great podcast the Irish History Show at theIrishstory.com.

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0:00.0	Little things, like taking a shortcut through the park on your way to work each day can make a big difference
0:16.0	to your mental health. Find your little big thing at every mind matters.
0:30.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
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0:45.0	Trains, now on Uber.
0:48.0	T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and
0:55.0	this is a history podcast.
0:57.0	My name is Finn Dwyer and this is a history of epidemics in Ireland.
1:02.0	Recently when I was talking to my cousin Martin who has
1:04.4	researched our family history he mentioned to me that my great-great-grandmother
1:08.7	Catherine Murphy lost her sister and her daughter within two days of each other in February 1919 from the flu pandemic of the time.
1:18.0	This was a stark reminder that epidemics have always been with us and affected their lives in the most personal of ways.
1:25.0	They are in many ways part of human history, part of all our families if we go back far enough.
1:31.0	Since the outbreak of COVID-19 I've had lots of requests to do an episode on the history of epidemics.
1:37.0	So for this episode I caught up with the historian John Dorney who recently published an article on the history of epidemics in Ireland.
1:44.1	You can find John's article, Epidemics in Ireland and also his great podcast, The Irish History
1:49.9	show at the Irish Story.com. That's the Irish Story.com. I'm going to post links to that in the show notes below this episode.
1:59.0	But one last time the address is the Irish Story.com. Finally before I start I hope you're all doing
2:06.1	okay wherever you're listening to this there's no doubt that these are very strange and
2:10.5	can be very trying times, but they will pass.
2:14.0	To start our conversation, I began by asking John how disease, epidemics and pandemics have always been with us and how they're part of our history.
2:27.0	Epidemics are something that people have always had to deal with in human history and of course for most of human history people had no control whatsoever over it. There was no vaccine.
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