Dr John Cunningham. The medical world of early modern Ireland by History Hub

Recording of a paper by Dr John Cunningham (Trinity College Dublin / University of Exeter) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference.

About the paper: The medical world of early modern Ireland

This paper relates to my work to date for the research project ‘The medical world of early modern England, Wales and Ireland’, funded by the Wellcome Trust. I am part of a team of scholars centred in the University of Exeter that is endeavouring to uncover as much data as possible about medical practitioners in the period 1500-1715. All of the information collected is being entered into a database. Primary sources that are of use in relation to Ireland include corporation records, rolls of freemen, wills and will indexes, parish registers, university and other institutional records, the 1641 depositions, and various further materials. The previous research of other scholars also constitutes an important resource. The paper will discuss some of the particular challenges and opportunities that exist concerning research into important groups of practitioners, such as physicians, barber surgeons and apothecaries, in early modern Ireland.

The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth.

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