Standing My Ground: Memoir of a Woman Physician

All of Europe was ablaze when Clair M. Callan was born in 1940 as World War II raged across the continent. Although her home in Sandycove in neutral Ireland was peaceful and safe, the war had a great effect on her and her family. In Standing My Ground, Callan provides insight into the shaping of her life.

This memoir spans the arc of Callan’s life—seven decades—as a school girl in Ireland, a wife, mother, doctor, and eventually a business executive in America. Callan recounts how she partia...