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Pearl Dunlevy
Dr Pearl Dunlevy (13 August 1909 – 3 June 2002), was an Irish physician and epidemiologist working on TB and was the first woman president of the Biological Society of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Early life and career Born to George Dunlevy and Maggie Doherty, in Mountcharles, Co. Donegal, Bridget Margaret Mary Dunlevy, known as ''Pearl'', was one of six children. She was the second youngest and had four brothers and a sister. She was educated in the Loreto Convent, St Stephen's Green, Dublin well as St. Louis Convent in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. Dunlevy studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and graduated in 1932 coming first in the exams. She was a student of Sir Thomas Myles. Moving to the UK Dunlevy worked in a number of British hospitals: * 1932–1933 House physician, Eye Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne * 1933 House physician and surgeon, Nuneaton General Hospital * 1933-1934 Resident surgical officer, Birmingham Children's Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountcharles
Mountcharles () is a village and townland (of 650 acres) in the south of County Donegal, Ireland. It lies 6 km from Donegal Town on the Killybegs road ( N56). It is situated in the civil parish of Inver and the historic barony of Banagh. The village's name is usually pronounced locally as 'Mount-char-liss'. Name Before the Plantation of Ulster, the area from the present N56 to the sea, including modern day Salthill, was known as ''Tamhnach an tSalainn'' ('the Field of Salt'). This refers to the fields along the coast which flooded with seawater with the flow of the tide, as the water receded, salt remnants remained in the fields. The Irish name for the village refers to this salt mine in the area which local people worked in, and at a growing rate, as the salt extraction rate was increased by the plantation founder, Charles Conyngham. The name was later anglicized as ''Tawnaghtallan'' and ''Tawnytallan''. Whereupon English became the only language permitted for placenam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |