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Journalism - Essays and letters

Letter from Dublin: (A series of articles commissioned by the British Medical Journal on events medical and otherwise in Ireland)

Consultants in Ireland: Time for Decision. Brit Med J 1975;3:291-292

Hibernian Mores: Hypocrisy of Reality? Brit Med J. 1976; 1:145-146.

Private Enterprise - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Brit Med J 1976;1:1264-1266.

Welcome to Dublin. Brit Med J 1976;1:1517-1519.

Politicians and Medicine: A Changing Role? Brit Med J 1977;1:1019-1020.

Doctors to Tradesmen. Brit Med J 1978;2:633.

A Memory of Micheál MacLiammóir (1899-1978). Brit Med J 1978;3:181-187.

Leaders written as Editor of the Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons

Editorial Comment: The Year book. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1973;3:70-2.

Editorial Comment. Diplomas and degrees. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1974;4:70-72.

Editorial Comment: The Journal. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1974;3:94-95.

Editorial Comment: The new Medical School. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1974;3:95-97

Editorial Comment: The College and American Examinations. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1975;4:106-107.

Editorial Comment: The Faculty of Nursing. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1975;4:107-108.

Editorial Comment: Hypertension. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1975;4:108

Editorial Comment: Department of the History of Medicine. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1975;4:169-170

Editorial Comment: Student Papers. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1975;4:170

Editorial Comment: International Symposium on Preventive Cardiology. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1975;5:81

Editorial Comment: Teacher Training Again. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1976;6:37-38.

Editorial Comment: The Journal. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1976;5:97

Editorial Comment: Medical School Extension. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1976;5:143

Editorial Comment: R.C.S.I. and U.C.D. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1976;5:196

Kincoran Opinion: A series of articles commissioned by the Irish Medical Journal

In Search of Johnston. Ir Med J 1978;71:597.

Lunch at Ealing Abbey: A Memory of Dom Peter Flood. Ir Med J 1979;72:40-41.

From Raspe to McIllroy via Munchausen. Ir Med J 1979;72:418.

The Exercise ECG. Ir Med J 1979;72:457.

History, diagnosis and then examination. Ir Med J 1979;72:499

What is a Professor? Ir Med J 1979;72:358.

The Placenta - A Neglected Experimental Animal. Ir Med J 1980;73:5.

In praise of the bicycle. Ir Med J 1980;73:103.

Editorials and essays written as Editor of the Irish Medical Journal

The Attempted Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian with their brothers. Ir Med J 1987;80:4.

Bartholomew Mosse (1712-1759). Ir Med J 1987;80:46.

The Smyth Window. Ir Med J 1987;80:76.

Operation in a Dublin drawing-room in the Georgian era. Ir Med J 1987;80:104.

Edward Worth (1688-1733). Ir Med J 1987;80:132.

Sara Hampson. Ir Med J 1987;80:160

Five Members of Parliament. Ir Med J 1987; 80:188.

The Carmichael School of Medicine. Ir Med J 1987;80:216.

The Sick Call. Ir Med J 1987;80:246

Evory Kennedy. Ir Med J 1987;80:274

Dominic Corrigan. Ir Med J 1987;80:302

The Doctor’s Visit. Ir Med J 1987;80:376.

The Journal in its Golden Jubilee. Ir Med J 1987;80:5-6.

Strike and the Medical Profession. Ir Med J 1987;80:247-248.

Oliver Fitzgerald (1910-1987). Obituary. Ir Med J 1987;80:338.

Closure of the Irish Medical Journal. Ir Med J 1987;80:335-336.

The Health Cuts: an appraisal. Ir Med J 1987;80:339-340.

Editorials and essays written as Editor of the Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons

The Journal. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1988;17:3

A Spitting Flask after Dr. Dettweiler J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1988;17:89

William Wilde sharing a bottle of beer with william Stokes. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1988;17:150

The Island of Dilmun. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18:6-7

The tragedy of the Medicine Man in the underdeveloped world. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18: 22-23

The Opening Ceremony. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18:48

The human eye from The Light of the Eye and Compendium of the Arts by Abu Zakariya Yaja ibn Abi’l-Raja. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18:2

Publishing papers: an editor’s viewpoint J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18:80

The Royal College of Physicians on Kildare Street. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18:128-139

The Quadrangle of Dr. Steevens’ Hospital. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18:242

Countess Markievicz surrendering the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireand, Easter 1916. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1989;18:162.

A Frost Piece. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;19:1

Samuel Beckett 1906-1989. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;19:81

John Stearne (1624-1669). J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;19:161

The winter solstice at Newgrange. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;19:241

Sir William MacCormac 1836-1901. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1991;20:1

The Adelaide Hospital, Peter Street. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;20:81

The Children of Bolivia. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;20:161

Mercer’s Hospital. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;20:241

Royal Conferring in Kuala Lumpur. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1992;21:4

The Burren, County Clare. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1992;21:81

Dr. Harry O’Flanagan in the cockpit of a Baltimore in 1945. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1992; 21:161

Dr. Steevens Hospital in 1992. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1992;21:241

Preparing a paper for publication in a medical journal. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1990;19:219-220

Charles Lever. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1993;22:1

Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret of the Netherlands and Her Excellency, Mary Robinson, President of Ireland. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1993;22:81

Portrait in oil of John Cheyne, Surgeon of Leith. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1993;22:161

Breakfast at Wilby (1997) by Nevill Johnson. J Irish Colleges Physicians & Surg 1993;22:241

Miscellaneous essays and views

Suspicion by Gaslight. World Medicine. 1972; August 23rd.

Personal View. British Medical Journal. 1972; 3: 230.

‘As I was saying before Dr. Barnard interrupted’. World Medicine. 1972; December 13th.

East Mediterranean Medical Congress. Ir Med J. 1972;65:234.

Checking up on Pacemakers. World Medicine. 1972; November 8th.

Cavalli, Eritrea and Wextford. Br Med J 1975;4:515.

The Wit of Oliver Gogarty. Brit Med J 1976;1:828.

Boulevard Bloom. Irish Times. 26/27 October 1981.

The most efficient movers in the solar system. Irish Times. 25/26/27/28 December 1981.

A city cycle network. Irish Times. 29 December 1981.

The Export of Culture. Irish Times. 13 June 1988.

Irish Electorate Speaks on Health. Lancet 1989;ll:80-81

At the heart of the matter. Irish Times. 15th December 1993. Supplement. p.7.

Glancing back with gratitude. Irish Times. 15th December 1993. Supplement. P.16.

‘An amalgam of old alliances’. Irish Times. 25th May 1994 . Supplement. p.7.

Anonymous Editorial. (E. O’B) Medicine’s lottery losers: it could be you. Lancet 1995;346:387.

O’Brien E. Gambling with the nation’s health? BMJ 1995;311:1225