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‘To the Glory of Freud’* The life and work of Dr William Graham (1857-1917)
Mary Heffernan Outside of literary settings, accounts of the introduction of psychoanalysis have been neglected in the historiography of Ireland. It is widely accepted that the all-pervading dominance of conflicting political and religious identities left little capacity for alternative forms of thinking on the self, particularly prior to the revolutionary period. Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones bemoaned a parochialism among physicians in Britain who resisted the latest continental developments and could ‘not even read German’.[1] While many asylum doctors were preoccupied with the mental health consequences of tea-drinking and alcoholism, 1913 saw one Belfast alienist, steeped in traditions of degeneration and moral…
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‘Reading the Book of Nature at the Edward Worth Library and the Zoological Museum, Trinity College Dublin’, an online exhibition celebrating the wonderful world of early modern natural history!
Text: Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin. 2022 witnessed the 500th anniversary of the birth of the famous Italian natural historian, Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605). To mark this quincentenary, the Edward Worth Library, Dublin, and the Zoological Museum in Trinity College Dublin, created a joint exhibition which continues to be available online. This exhibition, curated by Dr Elizabethanne Boran, the Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, and Dr Martyn Linnie, the Curator of the Zoological Museum, draws together some of Worth’s zoological (and more generally natural history) collections and those of the Zoological Museum. Image 1: Ulisse…
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