Posts Tagged ‘Spanish flu’
6 October: Seminar on ‘The black flu and the khaki election’, Naas, Co. Kildare
On Saturday 6 October 2018 the 19th Annual Seminar of the County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups took place in the Osprey Hotel, Naas, Co. Kildare, on the subject of ‘The black flu and the khaki election’.The ‘Spanish’ flu pandemic of 1918-19 emerged in the latter months of the First World War, and was transported…
Read More11 September 2018—31 May 2019: National Museum of Ireland centenary project on ‘The enemy within: The Spanish Flu in Ireland, 1918-19’.
From September 2018 onwards the National Museum of Ireland’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’ programme will focus on the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918-19. Traditionally overlooked in the history of the revolutionary period, the impact of the pandemic on Ireland has in recent years, attracted greater attention from historians. The pandemic emerged in the latter months of…
Read More6 June 2018: Book launch: ‘Stacking the coffins: Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918-19’, Hodges Figgis, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 6 June 2018 Hodges Figgis, 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2, hosted the launch of Ida Milne’s Stacking the coffins: Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918-19 The 1918-19 influenza pandemic disrupted Irish society and politics. Stilling cities and towns as it passed through, it closed schools, courts and libraries, quelled trade, crammed hospitals, and stretched…
Read More27 April 2018: History Ireland ‘Hedge School’: ‘Greatest killer of the 20th century? The flu pandemic of 1918-19’, Cobh Library, Co. Cork
On Friday 27 April 2018, as part of CAFE Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, Cobh Library, Co. Cork, hosted a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate entitled ‘Greatest killer of the 20th century? The flu pandemic of 1918-19’. The twentieth century was the century of mass death and yet, contrary to popular misconception, the greatest killer of all…
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