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  • "Typhoid Mary" Mallon the unfortunate cook

    This week we uncover the story of "Typhoid Mary" the unfortunate Irish cook whose name has become synonymous with disease and pestilence. More than just a pop culture reference, listen now to hear her full story.


    Notes/ References

    Dictionary Of Irish Biography: Mallon, Mary (‘Typhoid Mary’)

    “Controlling Typhoid Mary.” Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness, by Trevor Hopppe, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2018, pp. 17–42.

    Chan, Kit Yee, and Daniel D. Reidpath. “‘Typhoid Mary’ and ‘HIV Jane’: Responsibility, Agency and Disease Prevention.” Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 11, no. 22, 2003, pp. 40–50. 

    Leavitt, Judith Walzer. “‘Typhoid Mary’ Strikes Back Bacteriological Theory and Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Public Health.” Isis, vol. 83, no. 4, 1992, pp. 608–629.

    BBC: How Typhoid Mary left a trail of scandal and death

    Washington Post: Yes, there really was a ‘Typhoid Mary,’ an asymptomatic carrier who infected her patrons

    32 min
  • Grace O'Malley the pirate queen

    To Hell, to Connacht or to the high seas.  This week we dissect the folklore from fiction as we discuss the life of legendary pirate Queen of Connacht, Granuaile in part two of our pirate special. *Correction: In this episode Shaunna mistakenly says Grace O'Malley lives until the age of 93 when in fact she lived to 73, (which is still pretty astonishing considering the life she lived). 

    Notes/ references

    Grace O Malley, The Biography of Ireland’s Pirate Queen 1520-1603- Anne Chambers, Gill Books

    http://www.graceomalley.com

    https://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2019/0127/1025870-the-history-show-sunday-27-january-2019/

    https://www.historyireland.com/early-modern-history-1500-1700/grainne-mhaol-pirate-queen-of-connacht-behind-the-legend/

    https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/under-the-crossbones-the-pirate-podcast/e/53768984?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Four_Masters

    34 min
  • Anne Bonny the lesser known Irish pirate
    We have cabin fever so this week we are kicking off our two part pirate special with Anne Bonny, the lesser known Irish pirate.  Forced to leave Kinsale at a young age due to questionable parentage, Anne ending up carousing around the Caribbean with her paramour Calico Jack and a crew of unscrupulous pirates. She captured public imagination as a hard living, violent pirate and a woman no less.  Tune in to hear the blood curdling legends and more than a few pirate puns... it's been a long quarantine. Help!
    References/ Further Reading
    Clip from Muppet Treasure Island, Jim Henson Productions, 1996
    Dictionary of Irish Biography: Anne Bonny
    Brittanica Academic: Anne Bonny
    The Way of the Pirates: Anne Bonny
    Smithsonian Magazine: If There’s a Man Among Ye: The Tale of Pirate Queens Anne Bonny and Mary Read
    Irish Examiner: The fact and fiction of Cork pirate Captain Anne Bonny
    Irish Times: Irish women warriors: from Granuaile to Anne Bonny and Countess Markievicz
    ThoughtCo: Biography of Anne Bonny, Irish Pirate and Privateer
    Crime Museum: Anne Bonny
    National Park Service: Anne Bonny, Pirate
    Anne Bonny Pirate: Anne Bonny and Female Pirates
    Wild Irish Women by Marian Broderick,O'Brien Press, 2004.
    26 min
  • Margaret Cousins the international suffragette
    This week Shaunna tells us about Margaret Cousins a hippy with an iron core.  Margaret graduated from smashing windows in Dublin to fighting for women's rights in India, with some mystical detours along the way.
    Notes/ Further Reading 
    Women's Museum of Ireland: Margaret Elizabeth Cousins 
    RTE: Global Lives: Margaret Cousins 
    Ireland XO: Margaret (née Gillespie) Cousins 1878 
    The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule By Kumari Jayawardena
    Internet Archive: The awakening of Asian womanhood
    33 min
  • Kathleen Lynn the revolutionary doctor
    This week Maria and Shaunna come to you from lock down to talk about Kathleen Lynn your newest feminist icon. Dr Lynn was one of the first female doctors in Ireland, a revolutionary who was active in the 1916 Rising and War of Independence and who also founded her own hospital. Maria also gets to talk about syphilis again. It always comes back to syphilis...
    We may be going a bit mad from the lockdown.
    To view the Loopline documentary go to: https://ifiplayer.ie/kathleen-lynn-the-rebel-doctor/
    Notes/ References
    UCD: Dr Kathleen Lynn (1874 – 1955) 
    RCPI: Kathleen Lynn Diaries Collection
    Loopline: KATHLEEN LYNN – THE REBEL DOCTOR
    CSO: Life in 1916 Ireland: Stories from statistics
    IRISH TIMES: Kathleen Lynn: Pioneering doctor, socialist and public-health campaigner
    History Ireland: St Ultan’s: a women’s hospital for infants
    Kathleen Lynn of Mayo: ‘a brave and wise soul’
    29 min
  • Lola Montez- dancer, seducer and wild child
    This week Shaunna looks at Lola Montez who we have decided is the 19th Century Cardi B. Lola was a wild child who traveled more than all of your Tinder matches combined, was an early burlesque dancer and almost toppled a monarch. Expect terrible pop culture references, plenty of Buffy and learn which disease Maria is obsessed with this week (hint: it predates the coronavirus and your favourite historical figure probably had it)
    Notes/ further reading:
    https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/lola-montez-the-spider-woman-part-1/
    https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/lola-montez-the-spider-woman-part-2/
    Irish History Podcast: https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/montez/
    Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Montez
    Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lola-Montez
    41 min
  • Mary Anthony O'Connell the angel of the battlefield
    We accidentally picked a health themed episode before all of the coronavirus stuff started to really kick off. Prescient? Maybe. This week's episode is about nun and nurse Sister Anthony O'Connell AKA the Florence Nightingale of the Civil War AKA the Angel of the Battlefield.  Self isolate with us and learn about this badass woman who embedded with the Union Army during the American Civil War
    Notes/ References
    Limerick’s Life:  WHO WAS MARY O’CONNELL? AN ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD, Sharon Slater.
    Angels of the Battlefield, George Barton
    Sister Anthony O'Connell: Angel of the Orphan, the Sick, the Wounded, and the Outcast S.C. Judith Metz U.S. Catholic Historian, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2017, pp. 53-78 (Article) Published by The Catholic University of America Press
    The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio (1852-Present), Michael Barga.
    Irish America: The Irish Nightingale of the Civil War, Peter F. Stevens 
    Irish Dictionary of Biography: O'Connell, Mary, Patrick M. Geoghegan.
    47 min
  • Eliza Lynch the heroine of Paraguay
    In this episode Shaunna tells us the fascinating story of Eliza Lynch who left famine struck Ireland as a child and went on to become the Heroine of Paraguay. 
    Notes/ References
    History Ireland 
    Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850, James Dunkerly
    Wikipedia
    29 min
  • Mary MacSwiney Ireland's last true republican
    Often overshadowed by Countess Markievicz, Cork woman via England, Mary MacSwiney was a revolutionary who was considered to be Ireland's last true Republican.  This week we talk about her contribution to the Irish Republican cause and subsequent potted legacy
    Notes/ References
    Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Irish Biography, Mary MacSwiney by Brian Murphy
    Ordinary Women in Extraordinary Times: Eleven Cork Women in the Revolutionary Years 1916-1923 by Shandon Area History Group
    Ireland’s Suffragettes by  Sarah Beth Watkins
    Oireachtas Debates December 1921
    Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History by Marian Broderick
    31 min
  • Mary Swanzy artist extraordinare
    This week we look at artist Mary Swanzy. Mary was a contemporary of Picasso, one of Ireland's first cubist painters and fond of the odd snarky quip
    Notes/ References:
    Irish Examiner: Irish artist Mary Swanzy was a woman of many styles
    Crawford Art Gallery: Mary Swanzy
    Irish Times:  Mary Swanzy: From strait-laced girl to first Irish cubist
    Irish Times: Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
    Visual Arts Cork: Mary Swanzy
    33 min

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From witches to artists to revolutionaries; Phenomná is a feminist history podcast looking at Irish women who have been under represented or written out of mainstream history. It is presented by Maria…