Typhoid, Cockles & Terrorism:
How a Disease Shaped Modern Dublin
Launched in 2024, our three Dublin exhibitions and immersive content explore life and death with typhoid in Edwardian Dublin, the history of typhoid control and (mal-)adapted imperial infrastructure, and the evolution of biowarfare.
Fear & Fever: Living and Dying with Typhoid in Dublin
Dublin was once a ‘hotbed of fever’. Tour our Royal College of Physicians of Ireland exhibition to learn how typhoid affected medical science and everyday lives in Dublin.
Launch Exhibition
Stones & Bones: Containing Typhoid in ‘Dear, Dirty Dublin’
In Edwardian Dublin, typhoid could strike anybody. Explore our Dublin City Library & Archive exhibition and discover how local ecologies, imperial ideals, and urban inequality influenced disease control.
Launch Exhibition
Contours of a Taboo: Bioweapons and the 1920 ‘Sinn Féin Typhoid Plot’
Between 1918 and 1921, use of bioweapons was repeatedly considered by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Visit our UCD Archives exhibition to learn about the history and ethics of biowarfare here.
Launch Exhibition
Fear & Fever: Living and Dying with Typhoid in Dublin
Dublin was once a ‘hotbed of fever’. Tour our Royal College of Physicians of Ireland exhibition to learn how typhoid impacted medical science and everyday lives in Dublin.
Launch Exhibition
Stones & Bones: Containing Typhoid in ‘Dear, Dirty Dublin’
In Edwardian Dublin, typhoid could strike anybody. Explore our Dublin City Library & Archive exhibition and discover how local ecologies, imperial ideals, and urban inequality impacted disease control.
Launch Exhibition
Contours of a Taboo: Bioweapons and the 1920 ‘Sinn Féin Typhoid Plot’
Between 1918 and 1921, use of bioweapons was repeatedly considered by the Irish Republican Army. Visit our UCD Archives exhibition to learn about the history and ethics of biowarfare here.
Launch Exhibition
Animation & Graphic Novel
Alive Alive Oh
The ballad of the shellfish hawker Molly Malone is Dublin’s unofficial anthem. Join ‘Sweet Molly’ on a tour of Edwardian Dublin and discover how poverty, polluted water, and contaminated food spread typhoid.
Fear & Fever: 14 days of typhoid in Edwardian Dublin
Published with Dublin City Council in 2024 and illustrated by Clare Foley, this open access graphic novel tells the story of two weeks in which one disease collides the lives of two people with very different backgrounds. Teresa Byrne is a poor nursemaid. Sir Charles Cameron is Dublin’s Medical Superintendent Officer of Health. One of their lives will be changed forever as a result.
Tracking Typhoid
Use our open access resources to reconstruct Typhi’s spread through the body and Dublin neighbourhoods. Learn what infectious disease experts are doing to control diseases like it today.
Typhoid Bibliography
Want to learn more about typhoid in Dublin? Click here for some of the historical sources underpinning our research, and our suggested typhoid reading list.
Open The Bibliography
