One of the aims of this website is to make the Halliday Sutherland archive accessible to a wider audience, including to historians and journalists. Some of the documents published uniquely here include Dr. Sutherland’s 1917 address Consumption: Its Cause and Cure, and the (uncensored) publisher’s draft of his visit to the Magdalene Laundry at Galway in 1955. The recent rediscovery…

Halliday Sutherland wrote in a style that at first sight appears to be economical, yet it is also very evocative.  The example given here is Dr. Sutherland’s description of his return to “Arcadia”. I made a pilgrimage two summers ago to the place I had described as Arcadia. I went in fear and trembling lest the place in reality should be less wonderful than in…