In Danger and Distress: Presentation of Gunshot Cases to Dublin Hospitals during the Height of Fenianism, 1866-1871

Abstract

The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood (IRB) was founded in Dublin on St Patrick's Day, 1858. Its leadership held an unsuccessful rising in Ireland on 5 March 1867. The period immediately prior to this event is often referred to as the high point of Fenianism and in Dublin it bore witness to a number of sporadic shootings, many of which were conducted under the auspices of a loosely controlled assassination circle. These were, however, often little more than thinly disguised reprisal attacks and the burden for treating the victims fell on the shoulders of the city's civil surgeons. This article uses the highly publicised shooting of the retired policeman, Thomas Talbot in 1871 as its central theme in order to highlight a number of key topics concerning the management of civilian gunshot injuries in Ireland during the mid to late nineteenth century.

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