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Alcoholism in the Republic of Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Dermot Walsh
Dermot Walsh*
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Formerly Department of Psychiatry, University College, Dublin
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The impression that alcoholism is common among the Irish is a very old one. It has been given some scientific basis by comparative studies of alcoholism in various ethnic groups in the United States. Thus, Hyde and Chisholm (1944) found that the rejection rate for enlistees in the United States army because of chronic alcoholism was higher in the Irish than in any other national group. Confirmatory evidence came from Malzberg (1940) in a study of first hospitalization rates for various diagnostic categories in New York State, and Roberts and Myers (1954) in a prevalence study in New Haven found that the Irish had a far higher proportion under treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction than other national groups.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 526 , September 1969 , pp. 1021 - 1025
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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