David Durnin is Irish Research Council Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, School of History, University College DublinIan Miller is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University

• Introduction - David Durnin and Ian MillerPart I: Health and disease on the domestic front1. 'Every human life is a national importance': the impact of the First World War on attitudes to maternal and infant health - Fionnuala Walsh2. The war and influenza: the impact of the First World War on the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ulster - Patricia Marsh3. Food, the Emergency and the lower-class Irish body, c.1939-45 - Bryce Evans4. Alone among neutrals: Ireland's unique experience of tuberculosis during the Second World War - Anne Mac LellanPart II: Health and political unrest5. War on our doorstep: Temple Street Hospital and the 1916 Rising - Barry Kennerk6. Ireland's British Army doctors and the treatment of Irish nationalists, 1916-23 - David Durnin7. The 'report of a nightmare': hallucinating conflict in the political and personal frontiers of Ulster during the IRA border campaign of 1920-22 - Fiachra ByrnePart III: Institutions and medical personnel8. From front to home and back again: geographical networks of auxiliary medical care in the First World War - Ronan Foley9. Hope and experience: nurses from Belfast hospitals in the First World War - Seán Graffin10. War work on the home front: the Central Sphagnum Depot for Ireland at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1915-19 - Clara Cullen11. On the brink of universalism: the Emergency Hospital Services in Second World War Northern Ireland - Seán Lucey12. Imperial continuities: Irish doctors and the British armed forces, 1922-45 - Steven O'Connor13. Migrants, medics, matrons: exploring the spectrum of Irish immigrants in the wartime British health sector - Jennifer RedmondIndex