Dublin Photographic Studios and the Medical Press of the 1860s

Recorded November 30, 2023. A lecture by Dr Orla Fitzpatrick (Ireland's Border Culture Project, Trinity College Dublin) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. During the 1860s, photographic studios such as Allen of Westland Row, Foster of Westmoreland Street and Lawrence of Sackville Street provided the source imagery for articles in the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. In an era before the advent of photo-mechanical reproduction, the images were published as woodcuts or lithographs or sometimes original prints were tipped into the journal. The paper will also survey the reviews and references to international photographically illustrated publications which appeared in the Dublin press. Dr Orla Fitzpatrick is a Research Fellow working with Professor Eve Patten, Trinity College Dublin and Garrett Carr, Queen’s University Belfast, on a HEA Shared Island North-South Research Programme project ‘Ireland’s Border Culture: Literature, Arts, and Policy.’ Dr Fitzpatrick attained a PhD from Ulster University on the topic of modernity, modernism and Irish photography, 1922 to 1949. Her book Lost Ireland was published by Rizzoli and Pavilion in 2021. She curated 'Imaging Conflict: photographs from revolutionary era Ireland,' a major exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland which opened in October 2022. This looked at the production and consumption of photographic images in conflict situations. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/