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Dr. Ella Webb - articles in books
Title and Author | Cover | Description | Year | Publisher |
Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers |
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In a book describing his own journalistic work over the period 1979 to 2020, Kevin Myers reflects on the work he did and the controversies along the way. In one episode, he describes a speech by President Higgins during the centenary of the 1916 Rising and asks: [why]...had there been no mention of Dr Ella Webb of St John's Ambulance Brigade, who was decorated with the Silver Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem for repeatedly cycling through the gun battles to check on the wounded in the city's hospitals? |
2020 |
Merrion Press ISBN-10 : 1785372610 |
Irish Women in the First World War Era: Irish Women’s Lives, 1914–18 Edited by Jennifer Redmond and Elaine Farrell |
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This book is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on Irish women’s experiences in the First World War period, 1914-18, across the island of Ireland, contextualising the wartime realities of women’s lives in a changing political landscape. When discussing the emotional effects of the First World War, it mentions that as part of her child welfare work, Dr Ella Webb commented that 'Some of the poor mothers to which she had spoken complained of being very upset by the war', expressing concern over the emotional toll. |
2019 |
Routledge ISBN-10 : 0367322358 |
Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS by Samuel Kline Cohn |
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By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures, as with AIDS during the last two decades of the twentieth century. In terms of the Flu Epidemic after the First World War, the book describes the work done in Ireland by Ella Webb. |
2018 |
OUP Oxford ISBN-10 : 0198819668 |
Easter Dawn: The 1916 Rising by Turtle Bunbury |
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Turtle Bunbury's great book provides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic events of Easter Week 1916 in Dublin and around Ireland interspersed with fascinating stories of the people and places who featured in them. Included is a description of the work done by Dr. Ella Webb. |
2015 |
The Mercier Press Ltd ISBN-10 : 1781172587 |
A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919-1921 by Pádraig Yeates | ![]() |
The story of Dublin post World War 1during the Irish Revolution and the aftermath. It includes the work of Ella Webb and others in setting up medical facilities including the Sunshine home in Stillorgan. | 2015 |
Gill & Macmillan ISBN-10 : 0717167275 |
The Easter Rising 1916 - Molly's Diary by Patricia Murphy | ![]() |
Although written for children, this book is filled with historical facts and tells the story of the uprising from a young girl's point of view. In the story, Molly meets up with Ella Webb as Ella is helping out. | 2014 |
Poolbeg ISBN-10 : 1781999740 |
Dorothy Stopford Price: Rebel Doctor by Anne Mac Lellan |
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Dorothy Stopford Price was arguably the most instrumental individual in eradicating the TB epidemic within Ireland. She introduced BCG to its shores which, to this day, prevent children from catching tuberculosis. She worked closely with Ella Webb and this is described in the book. | 2014 |
Irish Academic Press Ltd ISBN-10 : 0716532360 |
Knowing Their Place?: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century Edited by Brendan Walsh | ![]() |
This is a comprehensive account of the public, private and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age. In a chapter entitle "General practice? Victorian Irish Women and United Kingdom Medicine", Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh discusses a number of people including Ella Webb. | 2014 |
The History Press Ireland ISBN-10 : 1845887921 |
1916 - What the People Saw by Mick O'Farrell |
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It discusses the role played by Ella Webb in the Easter uprising. | 2013 |
The Mercier Press Ltd ISBN-10 : 1781171505 |
Principles Of Medical Social Work by Dr I Sundar |
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The book describes how Ella Webb appointed the first Medical Social Worker (or Almoner as they were then known) in Ireland. | 2013 |
Raj Publications ISBN-10 : 8183876129 |
In a Time of War: Tipperary 1914-1918 by John Dennehy | ![]() |
Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. In a section on how the First World War saw an increase in charitable activity, including voluntary work, Dennehy describes Ella Webb inspecting the members of the Clonmel Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. | 2013 |
Merrion Press ISBN-10 : 1908928212 |
A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18 by Pádraig Yeates | ![]() |
A comprehensive look at Dublin during the war years. It includes a section on the Easter uprising and the work of Dr. Ella Webb. | 2012 |
Gill & Macmillan ISBN-10 : 0717154610 |
Quiet Revolutionaries: Irish Women in Education, Sport and Medicine 1861-1964 by Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh | ![]() |
Quiet Revolutionaries examines the pivotal role Irish women played in the development of education, medicine and sport in one hundred years of change in their country and in the world in general. It includes the work done by Ella Webb. | 2011 |
THP Ireland ISBN-10 : 1845886968 |
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry by Sue Shephard |
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Constance Spry was much, much more than the author of a bestselling cookery book. Connie was deeply unconventional, extremely charming and very determined. She spent some time in Dublin with the VADs and worked with Ella Webb. | 2011 |
Pan ISBN-10 : 0330544225 |
Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 by Maria Luddy |
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This is the first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In it, Luddy describes how Albina Broderick sought to tackle venereal disease in Ireland in 1913 though the use of a course of instruction for young men and women, and the subsequent reaction to this in the medical profession, mentioning that: Dr Ella Webb thought it a 'splendid thing' that the nursing profession should take up this issue. |
2007 |
Cambridge University Press ISBN-10 : 0521709059 |
Kathleen Lynn: Irishwoman, Patriot, Doctor by Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh | ![]() |
The life of this prominent female doctor mirrored many of the changes in Irish life between 1874 and 1955. She was Chief Medical Officer of the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising and vice president of Sinn Féin as well as a TD between 1923 and 1927. Her work with Ella Webb is included. | 2006 |
Irish Academic Press ISBN-10 : 0716528436 |
Social Work in Ireland: Historical Perspectives Edited by Noreen Kearney and Caroline Skehill | ![]() |
The book also describes how Ella Webb appointed the first Medical Social Worker (or Almoner as they were then known) in Ireland. | 2005 |
Institute of Public Administration ISBN-10 : 1904541232 |
Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All'? edited by Adrian Gregory and Senia Paseta |
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This study brings together research whilst re-evaluating older assumptions about the immediate and continuing impact of the war on Ireland. In this discussion it talks about the work done by Ella Webb during the Easter Rising. | 2002 |
Manchester University Press ISBN-10 : 0719059240 |
The Easter Rebellion: The outstanding narrative history of the 1916 Rising in Ireland by Max Caulfield | ![]() |
In his book on the 1916 Rising, Max Caulfield describes the work done by Ella Webb. | 1995 |
Gill Books ISBN-10 : 0837175070 |
A "peculiar" place: The Adelaide Hospital, Dublin : its times, places and personalities, 1839 to 1989 by David Mitchell | ![]() |
The story of the Adelaide Hospital in Dublin, with an account of the Easter Rising and Ella Webb's involvement. | 1989 |
Blackwater ISBN-10 : 0905471164 |
The Story of British V.A.D. Work in the Great War by Thekla Bowser F.J.I. | ![]() |
Part of the "Women in Wartime Series", this book is the story of Britain s nursing organisation - the V.A.D. in the Great War. It includes the work done by the V.A.D. (including Ella Webb) in the 1916 uprising. | 1917, republished 2003 |
Imperial War Museum ISBN-10 : 1901623602 |
1916 Rebellion Handbook, introduction by Declan Kiberd |
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Originally published just after the Rising as the "Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook", it gives a detailed account of the fighting and other activities, and includes the work done by Ella Webb. | 1916, republished 1998 |
Mourne River Press ISBN-10 : 0965088162 |
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