Doireann Ní Ghríofa
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408 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 May
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And and what was fascinating in following Dr. Lucia's work.
career, I suppose, as a doctor, even though with doctors, I feel like it's her life as a doctor, you know, it doesn't feel as simple as being a career, was that when there came a point where they'd had their family and they were moved to a house at the other end of the, what was the larger hospital estate, like many of these hospitals, there was a huge farm attached to it.
So they were at the top of the estate and in this other house that they decided on their own initiative to begin a clinic there that would be.
And this was underlined by Dr. John Fitzgerald, who's his husband, that their intention was that this clinic would be freely available to the public.
and free of charge entirely so that anyone who was or anyone whose family member was suffering from what they would have called early symptoms of mental distress, there was an open door there for them.
And what was important to him was that their home was at another road, another public road, so that people wouldn't have the stigma of approaching the hospital or the fear that they would be entering what felt like a domestic space and that
Like, I mean, this blows my mind.
The 1910s, Derval, can you imagine being invited into someone's home and the doctor says to you, I know you've been having a hard time.
Please lie down on the sofa and tell me what's on your mind.
They wouldn't.
Probably not now.
But again, when you're studying this history, there were many, many, many things that were accepted as normal in those times that would not happen now at all.
Yes, absolutely.
And this is a formidable work.
woman, a really admirable woman, I found, a woman of her times who cared about other women, the care of other women, also the rights of women and who was active in demanding the vote.
Her politics are really interesting when you approach it because there's so much nuance there, I think.
And she volunteered
for the British Army to care for at the time when people were injured at the front in World War I and being brought back to Cork to be treated.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because I'm someone like a lot of people who'll be listening to the radio right now who has known depression at different times in my own life.
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