Thread by @KatieRobinsonOT, We are very fortunate in @UL to have Prof. @judipettigrew leading a [...]

We are very fortunate in @UL to have Prof. @judipettigrew leading a program of research on the history of #OccupationalTherapy over the past decade bringing together her academic backgrounds in anthropology, OT and history.

Links to publications in the thread below.

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This paper gives a broad overview of the history of OT in Ireland, including pre-professional OT's such as Donal Kelly, a former TB patient, who worked at Castlerea Sanatorium from the 50's.

Pictured here with 2 of his sisters who died of TB

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJOT-02-2017-0007/full/html

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This paper describes the development of the occupational therapy at @StPatricks Hosp Dublin where Olga Gale (1926-2014) set up an OT department from 1946 earning £150 per annum.

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJOT-11-2017-0025/full/html

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In this paper oral histories of the first professional qualified occupational therapists in Ireland are presented:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0308022618770135

Many of the participants agreed to their names being reported & they gave great accounts of St. Joseph's in the 1960's

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Another paper describes the experiences of those who started working as OT's in the 1970's in Ireland.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281175955_Exploring_the_Professional_Experiences_of_Occupational_Therapists_who_Started_Working_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_in_the_1970s

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Exploring the Professional Experiences of Occupational Therapists who Started Working in the...

Request PDF | On Jan 1, 2014, Sarah Lynch Judith Pettigrew published Exploring the Professional Experiences of Occupational Therapists who Started Working in the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s |...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281175955_Exploring_the_Professional_Experiences_of_Occupational_Therapists_who_Started_Working_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_in_the_1970s

This paper describes the development of occupational therapy in Grangegorman Mental Hospital and its auxiliary hospital, Portrane Mental Hospital from 1934-1954

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJOT-10-2019-0013/full/html

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This paper describes the use of leisure occupations in the Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1920.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judith_Pettigrew/publication/281176053_Leisure_Occupations_in_the_Central_Criminal_Lunatic_Asylum_1890-1920/links/5706cf8e08ae04e9708c0c5e/Leisure-Occupations-in-the-Central-Criminal-Lunatic-Asylum-1890-1920.pdf

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This paper analyzes a poem written by a patient (Corporal Frank Wren) contained in the unpublished memoir of WW1 occupational therapy reconstruction aide Lena Hitchcock.

https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=2593023

Lean is pictured below with a patient at Base Hospital No. 9. France

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Judi has also recently published the second edition of a book:

A Place in the Country: Three Counties Asylum (1860 – 1999) (second edition). University of Hertfordshire Press: Hatfield.

https://twitter.com/judipettigrew/status/916209712848429056?s=20

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https://twitter.com/judipettigrew/status/916209712848429056?s=20

This methodology paper might be useful to anyone interested in doing work in this area:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308022615608639

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Using historical documentary methods to explore the history of occupational therapy - Bríd Dunne,...

Introduction Historical research can benefit health professions by providing a basis for understanding how current beliefs and practices developed over time. Fr...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308022615608639

Finally, please get in touch with us if you want to access any of the papers or if you have any sources/ records you would like to share with us!

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