‘Responsible, effective and caring’: Gay Health Action, AIDS Activism and Sexual Health in the Republic of Ireland, 1985–1989

2021 ◽  
pp. 033248932110392
Author(s):  
David Kilgannon
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
Public Response ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
Health Action ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article explores the role and impact of Gay Health Action (GHA), a voluntary AIDS organisation that operated in the Republic of Ireland between 1985 and 1989. Drawing on their publications and media engagement, it argues that GHA played a significant role in educating the general public about AIDS, while this group also challenged ideas about sexual health and dispelled negative stereotypes associated with homosexuality. In doing so, the activities of GHA begin to outline the initial public response to HIV/AIDS during the 1980s, while also contributing towards an emergent body of research on the changing nature of Irish society during the late-twentieth century. It suggests ways in which attitudes to the gay community were evolving and highlights the need for further research on AIDS, examinations of which can contribute towards the emergent histories of social change and health policy in this period.

scholarly journals URBAN SETTLEMENT POPULATION: RUSSIAN NORTH AND THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
V. Fauzer ◽  
T. Lytkina ◽  
A. Smirnov ◽  
G. Fauzer ◽  
T. Kuzmitskaya
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Russian North ◽  
General Dynamics ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The general dynamics of the Russia population in its northern territories, and the Belarus Republic is presented; the demographic component role in population dynamics and their transformation in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century is shown. Special attention is paid to the effectiveness of migration exchange between the Northern territories and the Russian regions, and the scale of migration losses is shown. It is noted that the Russian North is highly urbanized, surpassing both Russia and the Belarus Republic and most of the countries of the foreign North in this indicator. In terms of the urban locality number, small and medium-sized cities are the leaders, while the majority of the population lives in cities of more than 100 thousand people.

scholarly journals Survival from twenty adult cancers in the UK and Republic of Ireland in the late twentieth century

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M Woods ◽  
◽  
Bernard Rachet ◽  
Lorraine Shack ◽  
Denise Catney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

scholarly journals A ‘forgettable minority’? Psychiatric Institutions and the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1965–84

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kilgannon
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
News Media ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post War ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Abstract This article investigates the admission of the intellectually disabled to institutional psychiatric facilities in the Republic of Ireland between 1965 and 1984, using this as a way to explore disability provision and the later years of the state’s congregate mental hospital network. Drawing on institutional documents and news media, it argues that ‘handicap admissions’ continued along an established pattern, while demonstrating how these facilities remained ill-equipped to meet the needs of disabled residents. In doing so, this article begins to address the broader lacuna surrounding intellectual disability within Irish historiography, while complicating an emergent body of work on the ‘deinstitutionalisation’ of the state’s psychiatric hospitals during the late twentieth century. It suggests ways in which institutional records can be used to access patient experiences and highlights the need for further research on intellectual disability, examinations of which can contribute towards the histories of institutionalisation and social policy in post-war Ireland.

“Hell was let loose on the country”: The Social History of Military Technology in the Republic of Biafra

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Availability ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Nigerian Civil War ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Military ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Abstract:The problem of armed crime in late twentieth-century Nigeria was closely connected to the events of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). Legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra reveal how violent crime emerged as part of the military confrontation between Biafra and Nigeria. The wide availability of firearms, the Biafran state’s diminishing ability to enforce the law, and the gradual collapse of Biafra’s economy under the pressure of a Nigerian blockade made Biafran soldiers and civilians reliant on their weapons to obtain food and fuel, make claims to property, and settle disputes with one another. Criminal legal records illustrate how military technologies shape interactions and relationships in the places where they are deployed, and how those dynamics can endure after the war comes to an end. This speaks to larger theoretical questions about the symbolic and functional meanings of guns during and after wartime.

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