New Documentary on RTÉ One: Irish Nurses

A documentary made by Dr Tom McGorrian drawing on the wider oral history project of the authors of one of our bestselling books has been produced by Buckinghamshire New University.

Emerald Nightingales – Irish Nurses in the NHS will be broadcast on Wednesday 27th August at 10:35pm on RTÉ One.

Involving nine of the nurses from our book Irish Nurses in the NHS: An oral history, this new documentary tells the powerful and long-overlooked story of a vital pillar of the NHS: the Irish migrant nurses who helped shape its early decades.

The film features intimate interviews conducted by Dr Tom McGorrian of BNU with surviving nurses from that era, women who share their vivid memories of both hardship and hope. Their voices are set against a visual backdrop of repurposed archival footage that immerses viewers in the working environments they once navigated, offering an honest and moving portrait of life on the wards.