The Irish Nurses in the NHS podcast is part of a wider project running in partnership with London Metropolitan University, The University of Liverpool, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and The Burdett Trust for Nursing.
The podcast shares the experiences and lives of thousands of nurses who travelled from Ireland, starting in 1948, at the inception of the NHS, through to the 80s. Recruitment drives throughout the 1950s and 60s saw NHS staff travel around Ireland to interview and sign up mostly Irish teenage girls for nurse training. In the series, you hear from dozens of these nurses about their motivations to leave home, the experiences and discrimination they faced in their new lives abroad, and what their training entailed, including many funny memories as well as some sad ones.
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