Vol. XLIV No. 166 November 2020 IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES

The joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies Joint editors: Liam Chambers and Marie Coleman Copy-editor: Ciarán McCabe

ARTICLES Medicine in Gaelic Ireland and Scotland, c . 1350–c . 1750 by Pierce Grace 201 Catholic inheritance under the penal laws in Ireland by Richard Fitzpatrick 224 ‘All our joys will be complated’: the visit of George IV to Ireland, 1821 by Karina Holton 248 ‘Irish fever’ in Britain during the Great Famine: immigration, disease and the legacy of ‘Black ’47’ by Lewis Darwen, Donald M. MacRaild, Brian Gurrin and Liam Kennedy 270 The afterlives of Galway jail, ‘diffi cult’ heritage, and the Maamtrasna murders: representations of an Irish urban space, 1882– 2018 by Richard J. Butler 295 ‘Help to win the war’ or ‘Ireland above all’?: Remobilisation, politics, and elite boys’ education in Ireland, 1917–18 by Charlotte Bennett 326 Historical revisit: Mythistory and the making of Ireland: Alice Stopford Green’s undoing by Angus Mitchell 349 FEATURED REVIEWS Fitzpatrick, The Americanisation of Ireland: migration and settlement, 1841–1925 by Mary E. Daly 374 Scull, The Catholic church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968–1998 Corthorn, Enoch Powell: politics and ideas in modern Britain Aveyard, No solution: the Labour government and the Northern Ireland confl ict, 1974–79. by Shaun McDaid 376

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EDITORS Liam Chambers, , Limerick Marie Coleman, Queen’s Belfast

EDITORIAL/MANAGEMENT BOARD Peter Connell, Trinity College, Dublin (Treasurer) Jacqueline Hill, University (Secretary) David Dickson, Trinity College, Dublin James Kelly, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra Peter Gray, Queen’s University, Belfast Together with the Editors. David Hayton, Queen’s University, Belfast (Chairman)

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Guy Beiner, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Elizabeth Malcolm, University of Melbourne, Thomas Charles-Edwards, University of Oxford Australia Marianne Elliott, Institute of Irish Studies, Kerby Miller, University of Missouri, U.S.A. University of Liverpool Kevin O’Neill, Boston College, U.S.A. Roy Foster, Queen Mary University of London Michael Perceval-Maxwell, McGill University, Lyndon Fraser, University of Canterbury, Canada New Zealand Donal McCracken, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Nathalie Genet-Rouffi ac, Service Historique de la South Africa Défense, France Peter Solar, Vesalius College, Belgium Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The Netherlands

IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ULSTER SOCIETY FOR IRISH President HISTORICAL STUDIES Pauric Travers, President Secretary Andrew Sneddon, Ulster University Ciarán Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin Secretary Treasurer Darragh Gannon, Queen’s University, Belfast Conor Mulvagh, University College Dublin Treasurer Committee Elaine Farrell, Queen’s University, Belfast Michael Cronin, Boston College Committee Eamon Darcy, Maynooth University Marie Coleman, Queen’s University, Belfast David Dickson, Trinity College, Dublin Peter Gray, Queen’s University, Belfast Diarmaid Ferriter, University College, Dublin David Hayton, Queen’s University, Belfast Jacqueline Hill, Maynooth University Andrew Holmes, Queen’s University, Belfast James Kelly, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra Leanne McCormick, Ulster University , Trinity College, Dublin Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum Jennifer Redmond, Maynooth University Diane Urquhart, Queen’s University, Belfast Caoimhe Whelan, Trinity College, Dublin Stephen Scarth, Public Record Offi ce of Northern Editorial committee Ireland Ciaran Brady, Trinity College, Dublin Aidan Clarke, Trinity College, Dublin

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