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Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -)
Published in: Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) 2/2016

01-05-2016 | Historical and Literary

William Wilde: Historian

Author: L. Geary

Published in: Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) | Issue 2/2016

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Abstract

This essay attempts to assess William Wilde as a social historian. It examines some of his contributions to the discipline of history and looks particularly at ‘The food of the Irish’, which was published in the Dublin University Magazine in February 1854.
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Wilde WR (1846) The history of periodic medical literature in Ireland, including notices of the medical and philosophical societies of Dublin. Dublin Q J Med Sci 1:xlvii
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Wilde WR (1849) Report upon the recent epidemic fever in Ireland. DQJMS 7:64–126, 340–404
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Wilde WR (1849) Report upon the recent epidemic fever in Ireland. DQJMS 8:1–86, 270–339
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Wilde WR (1854) The food of the Irish. Dublin Univ Mag xliii:127–128 (to kitchen was to add flavouring or relish to food; ‘point’ was anything that was used for that purpose)
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Gray P (2010) Accounting for catastrophe: William Wilde, the 1851 Irish census and the great famine. In: De Nie M, Farrell S (eds) Power and popular culture in modern Ireland. Essays in honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, pp 59–64
Metadata
Title
William Wilde: Historian
Author
L. Geary
Publication date
01-05-2016
Publisher
Springer London
Published in
Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0021-1265
Electronic ISSN: 1863-4362
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-016-1427-5

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