{"id":27664,"date":"2025-08-28T00:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:42:13","slug":"emerald-nightingales-review-the-remarkable-irish-nurses-who-left-home-to-form-the-backbone-of-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27664\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Emerald Nightingales\u2019 review: The remarkable Irish nurses who left home to form the backbone of the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nRT\u00c9 One documentary \u2018Emerald Nightingales\u2019 reveals that by the 1970s, 30pc of NHS nurses were Irish\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The late Mary Hazard (centre), pictured with nursing colleagues in London, was one of many women who went to work for the NHS. Photo: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fc76a9e2-5545-4598-8916-cee363a75e53.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The late Mary Hazard (centre), pictured with nursing colleagues in London, was one of many women who went to work for the NHS. Photo: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Oral history is the most valuable history of all because it comes straight from the horse\u2019s mouth. Or in the case of the documentary Emerald Nightingales: Irish Nurses in the NHS (RT\u00c9 One, Wednesday, August 27 at 10.35pm), straight from the nurse\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This fascinating hour-long film, narrated by Helen Behan \u2013 who was a nurse before she became an actress and temporarily returned to her former profession during the Covid-19 crisis \u2013 is part of a wider oral history project by Buckinghamshire New University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 One documentary \u2018Emerald Nightingales\u2019 reveals that by the 1970s, 30pc of NHS nurses were Irish The late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,9162,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-27664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-pat-stacey","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}