Bibliography
Clodagh
Tait
Works edited
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
Tait, Clodagh, “Causes of death and cultures of care in County Cork, 1660–1720: the evidence of the Youghal parish registers”, in: John Cunningham (ed.), Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine: practitioners, collectors and contexts, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 123–146.
abstract:
Very few parish registers survive from Early Modern Ireland, and those that do have rarely been systematically exploited by scholars. This chapter addresses this lacuna in the historiography of Early Modern Ireland by paying close attention to the Church of Ireland registers from Youghal, Co. Cork in the period 1660–1720. It sets out what the registers can tell us about births and deaths in the town, as well as the apparent impact of disease and epidemics in an urban setting. The chapter explores causes of death and also offers a case study of birth patterns in one family.
abstract:
Very few parish registers survive from Early Modern Ireland, and those that do have rarely been systematically exploited by scholars. This chapter addresses this lacuna in the historiography of Early Modern Ireland by paying close attention to the Church of Ireland registers from Youghal, Co. Cork in the period 1660–1720. It sets out what the registers can tell us about births and deaths in the town, as well as the apparent impact of disease and epidemics in an urban setting. The chapter explores causes of death and also offers a case study of birth patterns in one family.
