Sister Kate: Nursing through the Troubles

When Kate O’Hanlon started work at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, the people brought in to the casualty department were suffering from acute medical conditions or were victims of road traffic accidents. So when the telephone rang one evening in June 1966 with the news that there had been a shooting in Malvern Street, no one in the department could believe it.

But before long such incidents became daily occurrences – over a three-year period on 48 occasions, the department received...