Pandemic in Ireland One Hundred Years Ago Through the Lens of the Church of Ireland Gazette

By Dr Ida Milne

In the early summer of 1918, the editorials of the Church of Ireland Gazette appeared far more concerned with matters political and military than religious. The hot debate in the 28 June 1918 edition, for example, was a speech during the week by Viceroy Sir John French, where he made it clear that while the British Prime Minister Lloyd George was abandoning Home Rule, conscription would press ahead if there were not 50,000 recruits to the hard-pressed army by October. The leader writer tied his colours to the mast:

We are not – we imagine after his recent…


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