The Heavens Are All Blue by Finbar Lennon
The stunning heart-warming memoir about two doctors, a husband and wife, coming to terms with a devastating diagnosis.
Heartbreaking but inspirational, The Heavens Are All Blue is an absorbing account of lives lived to the full.. tenderly told * Irish Examiner *
Romance, death, medicine, nostalgia, love, pain - it's all here in one utterly beguiling package. The very stuff, you could say, of life * Irish Independent *
A heart-warming memoir * Irish Country Magazine *
A loving memoir of time spent both together and apart, with all the intricacies and complications that come with mixing medical expertise and personal illness ... their love story is told with great care and occasional humour ... [a] moving memoir * Sunday Business Post *
Romance, death, medicine, nostalgia, love, pain - it's all here in one utterly beguiling package. The very stuff, you could say, of life * Irish Independent *
A heart-warming memoir * Irish Country Magazine *
A loving memoir of time spent both together and apart, with all the intricacies and complications that come with mixing medical expertise and personal illness ... their love story is told with great care and occasional humour ... [a] moving memoir * Sunday Business Post *
Dr Finbar Lennon (Author)
Dr Finbar Lennon is a medical graduate of UCD. He trained in Dublin, London and Edmonton. He was appointed a consultant general surgeon in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in 1982. Since his retirement in 2012 he teaches undergraduate medical students in the Mater Hospital in Dublin. He was recently appointed an Associate Professor in Clinical Surgery in UCD.
Dr Kathleen McGarry (Author)
Dr Kate McGarry was an honours medical graduate of UCD after winning an entrance scholarship to UCD, going on to win the Bellingham Gold Medal in clinical medicine in St. Vincent's Hospital, where she did her early postgraduate training. Her later training took place in the Hammersmith and Great Ormond Street hospitals in London, and the clinical pharmacology department in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She was appointed a Clinical Fellow in University Hospital, Edmonton in Canada before returning to Ireland in 1983 to work as a consultant physician in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan where she was instrumental in developing Cardiology services. Kate was a Fellow on the Royal College of Physicians for twenty-five years and she was also President of the Irish Heart Foundation. In October 2019, The Royal College of Physicians in Ireland honoured Kate with a prestigious new award, the Dr Kate McGarry Prize, which will be awarded annually to doctors in training.
Dr Finbar Lennon is a medical graduate of UCD. He trained in Dublin, London and Edmonton. He was appointed a consultant general surgeon in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in 1982. Since his retirement in 2012 he teaches undergraduate medical students in the Mater Hospital in Dublin. He was recently appointed an Associate Professor in Clinical Surgery in UCD.
Dr Kathleen McGarry (Author)
Dr Kate McGarry was an honours medical graduate of UCD after winning an entrance scholarship to UCD, going on to win the Bellingham Gold Medal in clinical medicine in St. Vincent's Hospital, where she did her early postgraduate training. Her later training took place in the Hammersmith and Great Ormond Street hospitals in London, and the clinical pharmacology department in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She was appointed a Clinical Fellow in University Hospital, Edmonton in Canada before returning to Ireland in 1983 to work as a consultant physician in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan where she was instrumental in developing Cardiology services. Kate was a Fellow on the Royal College of Physicians for twenty-five years and she was also President of the Irish Heart Foundation. In October 2019, The Royal College of Physicians in Ireland honoured Kate with a prestigious new award, the Dr Kate McGarry Prize, which will be awarded annually to doctors in training.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529362459 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529362458 |
| Title | The Heavens Are All Blue |
| Author | Finbar Lennon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Year published | 2021-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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