Little things, like taking a shortcut through the park on your way to work each day can make a big difference

to your mental health. Find your little big thing at every mind matters.

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This is just a bonus episode based on some research I did a few years ago which is a bit topical at the moment.

It looks at what were at times the humorous but frantic preparations that took place in Dublin

in the year 1900 when there was a genuine fear the country would face an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

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While Bubonic Plague evokes images of the Middle Ages,

Ireland has had more than one brush with this dreaded disease.

As recently as the year 1900 ports across Ireland prepared for what they thought was an imminent outbreak of the black death, which a conservative

estimates had killed over 30% of the population in the mid-14th century.

What would be the last great plague scare in Ireland began after the illness broke out in Glasgow in

August 1900. Ireland with its constant and frequent traffic with this Scottish

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