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From Slyne Head to Malin Head - A Rural GPs Remembers

Author: O'Flaherty, Ken Dr.

Publication Year: 2003

Contents

Prologue
Marconi and Alcock and Brown
Civil war
The thirties
Politics in the thirties
Sport
Communications in the thirties
Radio
Ball games
Hunting, shooting and fishing
To the bog through the fields
Modern turf surfing
Saving the hay
The threshing
Summer
Pearl harbour
Seaweed
Sea fishing
Bunowen
The bar
Dancing
Electric power
Fair days
Corpus Christi
Altar boys and bell ringers
Breaking stones and roads
Wind and water
Wind power
The forge
Shoeing
The cartwheel
Errismore
Errismore races
Swimming, bonfires and corncrakes
The light keepers
Galways and the men of Aran
The Connemara pony and shows
Education
Holidays and war
The phoney war
The LSF
Castleknock
Rugby
Next on the agenda + Christmas holidays
January. Snow. Flu. And starvo
Winning the cup
Summer term
Night of terror
Athletics
The final push
What next
UCD
Christmas in Connemara
Change of Abode
32 Synge street and shaw
Pillion journey to Limerick
Summer holidays 46
Deaths in Family
Climbing 'the reek'
U turn
The college of science
1946 - 1947 The royal and the capital
The glimmer man
The snows of 47
The first flate
The connemara blacks
The triple crown
Horses and races
Olympic games
The real medical student
Senior Student
Mr. J.C. Flood
1949 to 50 back to the butterfly days
The summer of 1950 and death in the family
T.B. and the student
Students at large 1951
The final push
Doctors at Large
Hospital Doctors
Doctors in love
The grand tour
Pilgrims process
Monkstown
Cork
The leaving of Monkstown
The return to Coombe
The first incident
The second incident
Floating on Air
The longest day
Inishowen peninsula
Doctors and systems at work
The old and the new
J.P.
In Derry
New Park and the Montgomery's
Early days
Doing it my way
Home deliveries
And then there were three
The first Christmas
Love letters
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Doctor gets married
The Scottish fairs
The regatta
Sea angling
Bernard's wedding
Doctor at sea
Speedy gonzales
The Moville record
Force ten
Joker in the pack
History
1957 - 58 Holidays in Cork and Ballyconneely
The leaving of Ballyconneely
Paris Holidays 1958
New Arrivals
The sixties
The flu
Snow
The man in the boot
The counsel in the snow
Death in the snow
The Therapeutic drug era
Planting the roots
Hurricane Debbie
Deaths in the family and Dallas
Rossapenna
Disaster on Belleighan Hill
The doctor patient and the sick doctor
Hooked on Joyce
Portstewart and Portrush
Break through in technology
The end of the sixties
School and death
The seventies -
The spanish armada and La Trinidad valencera
The spanish armada
Ballybrack
The new general medical service
Doctor in the air
The doctor No. 2
The troubles
The scalp
Sea angling
Horse races
The Running doctor
Triathlon or tryathlon
Greencastle
The fort
Fishing port
Tragedy
Redcastle
The non-golfing doctor
Smooth changes 1986
The R.C.G.P and the birth of the I.C.G.P
The Oz experience
Partnership
Kenya
The land of the pharohs
I.C.G.P
Retirement
The light keepers
28th September 1990
Follow up celebrations
The pool
New Zealand
Hong Kong and Mr Wong
Taiwan and turbulence
Flight to Tokyo
Tokyo
New Zealand
South Island
Bungee Jumping
Mount Cook
The long journey home
Let down by the BMW
Mental Health Association
Origins of Serenity House
Promotion of the ICGP
Bungy the website
The rise and fall of Donegal GAA
The Rock Hill 10K (6.2 Miles)
The run and walk
ICGP Council and WONCA
Death in the Family
The doctor patient again
Re-hooked on Joyce
Stunned
The ICGP Presidency
Life in the ICGP
AGM
The president from Donegal
ICGP Conferring July 19th 1996
Professor per Fugelli and Joyce
National survey
Second AGM Killarney 9th - 11th May 1997
Wonca 98
The five days of Wonca
The closing of Wonca
The QE2
Spetzbergin and the ice flow
Tromso
Omagh
1998-1999
Health and day centres
The Millennium bug

Format Print
Keywords active life, quality of life, personal accounts, working life, family life, life events
Publisher Browne Publishers Ltd.
Classification life events
ISBN 095463120X
Pages 312
Categories: Books
Email: library@icgp.ie, Tel: 01 6763705, Fax: 01 6765850