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“Saints” in Scrubs

By Tom Deignan

Fall 2022

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Irish nurses, in fiction and in real life, shaped nursing and healthcare in the U.S. There is a moment late in J. Courtney Sullivan’s excellent 2017 novel Saints for all Occasions when “hundreds of people showed up” to a Boston Irish American wake. Among the mourners are a trio of sisters, “Peggy, Patrica and Jane, all of them nurses…two of them wore scrubs beneath their … [Read more...] about “Saints” in Scrubs

Irish Nurses Strike for Fair Pay

By Maggie Holland, Editorial Assistant
March / April 2019

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Ireland’s nurses went on strike on January 30 in a dispute over pay and staff shortages. There were three separate 24-hour stoppages and a planned three-day strike set for February 12, until the strike was suspended February 11 for three weeks as part of a recommendations by the Labour Court. The strike was organized by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organization (INMO) and the … [Read more...] about Irish Nurses Strike for Fair Pay