the first published history of the specialty in Ireland
lists some 170 bookplates of Irish doctors
Drawing on the award-winning Typhoidland exhibitions
While many Irish families produced at least one nurse and many of those emigrated
a family business for four generations
Go Ye Afar: An African Memoir - Sr Dr Eileen Keane Irish Design the first published history ofIn her memoir Go Ye Afar, Sr Dr Eileen Keane takes us on a journey of her work as a doctor and as a Missionary Sister of the Holy Rosary in Africa. Leaving Ireland on a cargo ship in 1961, with 5 in her pocket, she describes her experiences, both good and bad, over the following forty five years working in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia. Full of grit and dogged determination, and despite the danger, she provided care to all