Sister Kate
eBook - ePub

Sister Kate

Nursing through the Troubles

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eBook - ePub

Sister Kate

Nursing through the Troubles

About this book

When Kate O'Hanlon started work at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, the people brought in to the casualty department were suffering from acute medical conditions or were victims of road traffic accidents. So when the telephone rang one evening in June 1966 with the news that there had been a shooting in Malvern Street, no one in the department could believe it.

But before long such incidents became daily occurrences –over a three-year period on 48 occasions, the department received patients with multiple injuries caused by explosions – and the hospital went on to treat more victims of the Troubles than any other hospital.

Kate spent 16 years as the nurse in charge of casualty, working through many of the darkest days of the Troubles, including the bombings of McGurk's bar, the Abercorn and Donegall Street as well as Bloody Friday.

Told with her trademark blend of warmth, compassion and humour, this is her fascinating, frank and no-nonsense story of nursing on the front line. If you enjoyed Call the Midwife, Yes Sister, No Sister or Matron on Call, this is the perfect book for you.

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Table of contents

  1. Imprint page
  2. About Kate O’Hanlon
  3. Praise for Sister Kate
  4. Dedication
  5. Born and Bred in the Markets
  6. Newington Avenue and Further Afield
  7. Nurse Training at the Royal
  8. Midwifery at Liverpool and Back Home
  9. The Old Casualty Department
  10. The New Accident and Emergency Department
  11. Planning for a Disaster
  12. The Malvern Street Murder
  13. The Beginning of The Troubles and Internment
  14. McGurk’s Bar
  15. 1972: The Abercorn, Donegall Street and Bloody Friday
  16. Long Kesh
  17. Casualties from the Civil Disturbances
  18. Coping with Stress
  19. World Media at the Royal
  20. United Nations Nurse — Gaza and the West Bank
  21. Conferences Worldwide
  22. Nursing: Then and Now
  23. Acknowledgements