Upcoming Presentations

The team will be presenting at the Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference from the 16th to 19th of July 2024. This year’s conference, held in the University of Strathclyde, focuses on the theme of “Resistance”. Alice Mauger’s paper is entitled “Resisting a Stereotype: Evolving Responses to the “Drunken Irish”, c. 1960-2000”. Steven Taylor will be giving a paper titled “‘Beer party USA!’: Rethinking Beer in 1960s America?”. Morgan Wait’s paper is called “Lesbians on Poppers: LGBT Nightlife in Dublin 1975-93″. Hannah Kempel’s is titled ” “A Psychological Sort of Pressure”: Mental Healthcare, Resistance, and the Prevention of Terrorism Act”

Previous Presentations

Morgan Wait spoke at the Radical Futures Conference at UCC to be held on the 9th of May 2024. Morgan’s paper was titled “Youth Rebellion and the Irish Summer of Love” and looked at LSD and hippie culture in Ireland.

Hannah Kempel presented at the Women’s History Association of Ireland Conference at Queen’s University Belfast held on the 26th and 27th of April 2024. Hannah’s paper was titled “Nonconflicting Interests: Multilayered Relationships Between Mental Health Care, Gender, and the Irish Migrant Community in England” and looked at the critical mental health strand of DIASPORA.

Morgan Wait gave a paper on LSD and hippie culture in Ireland at the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ireland Conference. The conference took place in Carlow College on the 26th and 27th of April.

Alice Mauger recently gave a paper entitled “Writing a Stereotype? Scientific and Literary Portrayals of Irish Drinking in London and New York, since c. 1945” at the Drinking Studies Network annual conference at the University of Bristol. The conference was held from 1-3 March 2024.

Hannah Kempel presented on her research at this year’s Irish History Students’ Association Conference at the University of Galway on 2 March 2024. Hannah’s talk was titled  “Isolation, Risk, and Community: Understanding Researchers’ Responses to Irish Migrant Health after 1950”.

Members of our team presented at the Global Irish Diaspora Congress taking place between 19 and 23 July 2023. More information on the conference can be found here.

Alice Mauger: Alcohol, Drug Use and the Irish: Portrayals and Representations in London and New York since c. 1945

Steven Taylor: Drunk in Court: London’s Irish and the British State, 1950-1990

Alice Mauger and Steven Taylor presented at the Canadian Association of Irish Studies Annual Conference on the 31st of May. More information on the conference can be found here.

Alice Mauger presented the paper “Drifters” and “Drunks”: Medical and Community Responses to Alcohol, Drug Use and the Irish in London, c. 1970-2000

Steven Taylor presented the paper“Why should the English public put up with you – a drunken Irishman?” Exploring Responses to Irish Migration in Mid-Twentieth Century London

Alice Mauger presented at the Alcohol & Drugs History Society Conference which took place in Mexico City between 15 and 17 June 2022. More information on the conference can be found here.

Alice Mauger: Alcohol, Drug Use and the Irish: Portrayals and Experiences in Post-war London and New York

Alice Mauger presented at the Healing Disruption Symposium which took place at the University of Exeter between 26 and 27 February 2023. More information on the conference can be found here.

Alice Mauger: “The imaginations of a drunken, drugged Irishman”: Medical and Welfare Representations of Intoxication, Addiction and the Irish since the 1960s