Published 2017
“…With this principle in mind, this chapter will analyse the experiences of Irish nurses and
navvies in London and the south east of England from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s by closely examining a range of fictional and autobiographical texts such as: The Diary of an Exile (1964) by Donall Mac Amhlaigh; Florrie’s Girls (1989) by Maeve Kelly; I Am Alone (1949) by Walter Macken; Sixty Years a Nurse (2015) by Mary Hazard; With Breast Expanded (1964); A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime (2014) by Mary Morris. …”
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