UCD Archives uses Google Arts and Culture to create online exhibitions exploring our collections. These exhibitions are curated by our archivists, and with our colleagues in UCD Special Collections, UCD Digital Library and the National Folklore Collection, to create exhibitions on topics where we have shared holdings or where we have collaborated on a project together. We also work with users of our collections to create exhibitions.
UCD Library has a full list of all Cultural Heritage exhibitions online: UCD Library Exhibitions Showcase.
Since UCD Archives joined Twitter, we have used it to tweet sequences of documents from our collections exploring specific topics. We have used this work to create Twitter Moments and linked to them on this page. These are of general interest but may be of particular interest as a resource for secondary schools.
If you have any questions about any of our exhibitions or are interested in collaborating with UCD Archives on a future exhibition, please contact us at archives@ucd.ie.
UCD ARCHIVES GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE EXHIBITIONS
CONTOURS OF A TABOO: BIOWEAPONS & THE 1920 'SINN FÉIN TYPHOID PLOT'
Contours of a Taboo: Bioweapons and the 1920 'Sinn Féin Typhoid Plot'
An exhibition in seven scenes
Biological agents are among the most feared weapons on Earth. In 1920, British authorities claimed that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was planning to attack British barracks in Dublin with typhoid bacteria. Explore our seven scenes to lift the lid on the historical circumstances surrounding the so-called 'typhoid plot'. Discover how the very technologies underpinning the bacteriological revolution triggered major anxieties about invisible violence and find out how weaponising microbes became an international taboo.
Exhibition written and curated by Claas Kirchhelle
Curatorial and producation assistance from Carly Collier
Artwork by Madeleine Hadd
Design and digital exhibition development by Ben Leighton and Chris Hodgson
Visit the Dublin Portal of typhoidland.org to explore life and death with typhoid in turn of the century Dublin, the history of the city’s (mal-)adapted sanitary infrastructure, and the dark tale of weaponising diseases such as typhoid.