Biography
Education:
Having graduated in Medicine, and specializing in Ophthalmology, Susan then pursued a
Masters in History of Medicine in the Wellcome Center for the History of Medicine, University College London, and a doctorate in University College Cork with the title of 'The Evolution of the Medical Professions in 18th-century Dublin'.
Publications:
'Poor Paw relief in Late Nineteenth-Century County Louth': An Economic and Social Analysis. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, 2008.
'The Irish Apothecary"s Act of 1791: The First Nationwide Regulation of Apothecaries in the British Isles'. Eighteenth Century Ireland Journal, vol 25, 2010.
`A means of restoring the health and preserving the lives of his Majesty"s subject's': Ireland"s 18-Century Infirmary System, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol 29, 2012.
`The first of its kind in this part of the Kingdom': The Dundalk Charitable Infirmary: 1753. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, 2012.
'Sir Patrick Dun and the Complete School of Physic in Eighteenth-Century Dublin': Irish Journal of Medical Science, March 2014.
;Charles Lucas, a Medical Innovator', The Lucas Bi-Centenary Event, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2015.
'Sir William Wilde and Provision for the Blind in Nineteenth Century Ireland', in William Wilde Bi-Centenary Symposium Collection, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2016
The Centenary of the Irish College of Ophthalmologist, in the IC0 Publication. 2018.
The Evolution of the Medical Professions in Eighteenth Century Dublin in `Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine', ed. John Cunningham, Manchester University Press. 2019.
Conference Contributions and Lectures:
British Society for the History of Medicine, Belfast, September 2009: `The Irish Apothecary's Act of 1791'.
Early Modern History of Medicine Workshop, University of Ulster, March 2010: `Ireland's Eighteenth-Century National Infirmary System'.
Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland, Dublin, May 2010: `St Luke"s Guild of Apothecaries of Dublin, 1747'.
Royal Dublin Society Speaker Series: RDS, Dublin: October 2010. `The Apothecaries of Eighteenth Century Dublin'.
St Luke's Day Symposium, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland: November 2011: `Miscellaneous Papers of No Value'.
Edward Worth Library Spring Lecture Series: February 2012: Edward Worth Library, Dublin, `Would be a means of restoring the health and preserving the lives of His Majesty's Subjects: Ireland's Eighteenth-Century National Hospital System'.
Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Annual Meeting: Trinity College, Dublin, June 2012; `Calculated for the Extension of Useful Science: Towards a Complete School of Physic in Dublin.
Sir Patrick Dun Tercentenary Evening: Dublin, April 2013: `Sir Patrick Dun and the School of Physic in Eighteenth-Century Dublin'.
Living Medical History Project Lecture: RCPI, Dublin: May 2013. `So many Changes'.
Charles Lucas Tercentenary Commemorative Event, Dublin City Hall, September 2013. 'Charles Lucas and Medical regulation in Eighteenth Century Ireland'.
Sir William Wilde and Provision for the Blind in Nineteenth Century Ireland, in William Wilde Centenary Symposium, Royal college of Physicians in Ireland, 2015.
`The Scene was reminiscent of descriptions of the Black death in London in the 17th-Century: A first-hand account of the Spanish Flu in Kenya (B.E.A.P) in 1918'. RAMI Lecture, 2022.
'The Mother and Child Health System of 1950's Ireland: A new perspective'. Irish Medical Distinctiveness Workshop in Conjunction with the University of Notre Dame, June 2024, Kylemore Abbey, Galway.
'A Forgotten Dublin Hospital: The Pigeon House Hospital'. 12th April 2025. Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Lecture.
Projects Completed.
Project Director for The Living Medical History Oral History Project, recording the lives of Irish Doctors 1920-2020. Archived in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre, Dublin