Dr. Ella Webb - articles in books

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?

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.

1916 - What the People Saw by Mick O'Farrell

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.