Introduction: contexts of childhood illness in Ireland / Alice Mauger and Anne Mac Lellan
Children's smallpox and inoculation procedures in eighteenth-century Ireland / Gabriella Ashford
Children's hospital services in Victorian Dublin: the role of the institution for the diseases of children (1822-1886) / Conor Ward
The gentle application of mercury: treatment of children at the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin, in the mid-nineteenth century / Jean M. Walker
Childhood ophthalmia in Irish workhouses, 1849-1861 / Philomena Gorey
Children and the falling sickness, Ireland, 1850-1904 / June Cooper
Constructing 'moral hospitals' : improving bodies and minds in Irish reformatories and industrial schools, c. 1851-1890 / Ian Miller
The penny test : tuberculin testing and paediatric practice in Ireland, 1900-1960 / Anne Mac Lellan
Rickets and Irish children : Dr. Ella Webb and the early work of the Children's Sunshine Home, 1925-1946 / Laura Kelly
Through the eyes of a child : 'Spanish' influenza remembered by survivors / Ida Milne
'And so to bed' : bone and joint tuberculosis in children in Ireland, 1920-1950 / Susan Kelly.
Growing pains : childhood Illness in Ireland, 1750-1950. ISBN 9780716531739. Published by Irish Academic Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.