Florence Nightingale

Wild Irish Women: Dr. James Barry

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
November / December 2018

November 1, 2018 by </a> By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist<br/> <a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/november-december-2018/">November / December 2018</a> 3 Comments

The famous British Army surgeon was actually an Irish woman. ℘℘℘ Dr. James Barry was born in County Cork as Margaret Anne Bulkley, the daughter of Jeremiah and Mary-Ann (neé Barry). Accounts vary on the year of her birth but whether it was 1789 or 1795, women were denied a formal education. Her father was a feckless grocer who lost his business, landed in debtors’ prison and … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: Dr. James Barry

The Irish Nightingale of the Civil War

By Peter F. Stevens, Contributor
November / December 2018

November 1, 2018 by </a> By Peter F. Stevens, Contributor<br/> <a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/november-december-2018/">November / December 2018</a> 1 Comment

"The Irish-American Florence Nightingale" of the Civil War – Sister Mary Anthony. ℘℘℘ The name of this Civil War medical pioneer has unjustly slipped between history’s proverbial cracks. Still, her legacy flourishes: “Her innovative triage techniques remain standard practices in every theater of war where American troops fight.” Those words come from a 2003 Pentagon … [Read more...] about The Irish Nightingale of the Civil War

November 26, 1885

Thomas Andrews, Northern Irish chemist and physicist, died on this day in 1885 in Belfast. Andrews spent extensive time in school. He first attended the Belfast Academy and then the Royal Belfast Academical Institute, where he studied mathematics. In 1828, he went on to University of Glasgow to study chemistry, then Trinity College Dublin for classics with a distinction in science, and finally University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a doctorate of medicine. He did his most important work as a professor of Chemistry at Queen’s University of Belfast, where he demonstrated the phase transitions between gases and liquids, and carried out a complete inquiry into the gas laws.

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