Dr. Nora Stack
- Sources yet to be consulted:
Nora Stack.
Dr. Nora Stack,
born 29th June 1903,
studied medicine in
TCD,
one of first women doctors in Ireland,
had to work her way through university - family had no money,
BA TCD 1926,
while she was at TCD, in 1927, the Catholic Hierarchy issued
an order that no Catholic should attend TCD
"under pain of grave sin"
[this was reinforced 1944,
"Any Catholic who disobeys this law is guilty of mortal sin",
order finally scrapped 1970],
Nora received
MB
(Hons) TCD, 1st class hons, 75 %, 3rd place, Nov 1928,
living 35 Heytesbury St at time,
R.M.O., Royal City of Dublin Hospital,
Upr Baggot St,
July 1929 - Aug 1930, incl 6 months as House Physician,
7 months as House Surgeon,
one day, staff all gone to a rugby international,
Nora in charge, Nick O'Dwyer taken in from the
S Co.Dublin Hunt
[Frank hunted with O'Dwyer, but he and Nora didn't meet
at this stage],
she had to give him 36 stitches without anaesthetic,
no one there to give one,
at one stage he looked up weakly,
"Is this girl qualified?",
D.Ph.
TCD June 1931,
doctor in Dublin,
in 1932 when she met Frank she was working at
Royal Hospital for Consumption for Ireland,
Newtown Mountkennedy
sanatorium, Co.Wicklow,
Assistant School M.O. in South Shields,
Newcastle, NE England,
Nov 1932,
mar Thur 29th June 1933
[her 30th birthday, him age 46],
South Shields
[GRO.UK],
to Frank Flanagan and had issue. 
Nora (centre, back) working as a house-surgeon somewhere,
with a nun and nurses.
Nora Stack.
(Left) Nora Stack,
(Right) the wife of
General Sean Mac Eoin
(family friend, Free Stater),
Social and Personal magazine, perhaps c.1952.
Could poss. be dated in
[GROI]
by the fact that on inverse side is
photo of wedding of Charles Vincent Donnelly
and Lelia Jennings of Co.Sligo.
- References:
- Sources yet to be consulted:
In Nora's medical class at TCD in the late 1920s was
Dr. Marie Lea-Wilson,
the widow of an assassinated RIC officer,
in her late 30s:
- Patrick Ryan,
solicitor,
mar Josephine Daly,
listed as of Main St, Charleville,
Co.Cork, at Marie's birth 1887,
see entry
at 63 Main St, Charleville,
in
[Census, 1911],
[Burkes Peerage, 1970]
lists him as of The Turrets, Charleville,
had issue:
-
Marie Monica Ryan,
Dr. Marie Lea-Wilson,
listed as Marie Monica Eugenie Ryan at birth and mar,
though "Maria" on grave,
Catholic,
born
3 May
1887, Main St, Charleville, Co.Cork
[GROI],
known to her friends as "Monica",
think NOT Monique,
we have a book inscribed
"To Nora from her friend Monica",
also nicknamed "The Monarch" in our family,
listed as living The Turrets, Charleville, at mar,
mar 27 Jan 1914, Catholic Church, Charleville
[GROI]
to
Capt. Percival Lea-Wilson
[Church of England,
born 1887, England,
son of Samuel Henry Wilson, or Lea-Wilson],
"Perceval" on census form,
"Percival" on grave,
see his entry
in Woodford, Co.Galway, in
[Census, 1911],
he was an RIC officer,
he was killed by the IRA, in Gorey, Co.Wexford,
15 June 1920 (NOT 1921), age 33,
in the War of Independence,
he was bur
Putney Vale Cemetery, London,
see his grave,
after his death Marie started a new life, went to study medicine at TCD,
in her late 30s,
became doctor in Dublin,
she was in Nora Stack's medical class at TCD,
though Marie quite a bit older than Nora they became good friends,
only 3 women in the class, all Catholic,
Marie graduated 1928 (age 41),
she later acted as godmother 1934 to Nora's first child Peggy,
which leads to a story about
the lost Caravaggio,
lived 19 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin,
there as at [Thom's, 1945],
died Tue 20 July 1971, age 84 yrs
[GROI],
death notice in
Irish Times and Irish Independent,
Wed 21 July,
funeral Thur 22 July,
St.Andrew's church, Westland Row, Dublin,
bur Deansgrange Cemetery,
St.Kevin's Section, 96-B.
- Adeline Ryan,
mar 1 Aug 1916 [as his 3rd wife, him age 62] to
Hamilton Deane-Morgan, 4th Baron Muskerry
[born 18 May 1854],
he was father of 5th and 6th Barons by his 1st wife,
he died 9 June 1929, age 75 yrs,
she died 14 Mar 1950.
- Capt. Percival Lea-Wilson
features in
the movie
Michael Collins
(and here)
(1996)
as abusing the old Tom Clarke
after the 1916 Rising,
and being marked by Michael Collins
for later assassination.
- See an exchange in the Irish Times (pay to view)
about the truth of this:
Grave of Marie Lea-Wilson, Deansgrange Cemetery, Co.Dublin.
Photo from David Neary.
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