Bagenalstown GP features in new book on World War II
The front cover of 'Irish doctors in the Second World War'
A CARLOW doctor features in a new book that records Irish doctors who served, were decorated and lost their lives in World War II. Carlow doctor Michael Farrell from Bagenalstown features in the roll of honour in the new title , the fascinating sequel to .
This fully-illustrated hardback records Irish doctors who served and includes harrowing correspondence from Irish doctors detailing the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
Michael Joseph Farrell from Bagenalstown was educated in Castleknock College and studied medicine in 1943 in the Royal College of Surgeons. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and saw action in the English Channel as a ship’s surgeon on board RVNR Monowai, assisting casualties extracted from the Normandy landings in 1944. He was posted to Singapore to act as port medical officer following the Japanese surrender.
After the war, he specialised in public health and, following appointments in Kilkenny and Kerry, he was posted to Leitrim, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He died in 1990.
by Patrick J Casey, Kevin T Cullen and Joe P Duignan is published by Merrion Press and costs €29.99.
