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MFP/5/2/7

Do-it-yourself medicine in County Clare during the first half of the nineteenth century

Printed copy of 'Do-it-yourself medicine in County Clare during the first half of the nineteenth century' by D Macnamara, originally published in the Journal of the Irish Medical Association, April 1963. The article focuses on traditional medicine and homemade cures and is largely based on a book of medical recipes given to Dr Macnamara by a friend, which were compiled by Lady Charlotte O'Brien of Dromoland, County Clare.

File also contains four copy books with preparatory notes and drafts for the article, and a partial copy of the medical recipe book of Lady Charlotte O'Brien.

1963

MFP/5/2/11

A 'Liberal' education

Typescript copy [made in the 2000s] of 'A 'liberal' education' by Dr Donough Macnamara, containing an account of his education at the National School in Corofin, Our Lady's Bower Convent in Athlone, Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, Kasier Friedrich's Gynasium in Hamburg, Castleknock School and as an art student at University College Dublin. The account includes recollections of his teachers at the various schools including Mary Hayden and Thomas McDonough at UCD.

[2000s]

MFP/5/2/13

Corofin and the sky over it. Life in Corofin during the troubles

Typescript copy [made in the 2000s] of 'Corofin and the sky over it. Life in Corofin during the troubles' by [Donough Macnamara], a manuscript draft of this piece can be found in MFP/5/2/5. Macnamara writes about his political development, beginning with Arthur Griffith, but the main focus of the piece is his experience as a newly qualified dispensary doctor in Corofin from 1920 to 1922 during the Irish War of Independence.

[2000s]

MFP/5/2/14

Medical papers

Bound volume of Medical Papers written by Donough Macnamara, volume contains the following articles;

- The story of diphtheria: a medico-historical whodunit

- Memories of 1918 and "the flu"

- What makes the good Doctor?

- The good General Practitioner

- A century of General Practice - and after

- The Mater - 1914-1919

- Do-it-yourself medicine in County Clare during the first half of the nineteenth century

- Doing the Coombe in 1916

- A medical ramble through the nineteenth century

1952-1966

MFP/5/2/15

Memoirs of Dr Donough Macnamara

Bound typescript of the memoirs of Dr Donough MacNamara, 'a compiltation of some his writings which I (Maccon Macnamara) have put together in no specific order, so that my family ... will enjoy it'.

The volume contains version of many of the other writings in the collections, as well as additional material.

2019