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| Sister Mary Antonia |
 Mary Antonia was born in 1915 in the West of Ireland. Joining the Sisters of Charity, she trained as a nurse and was sent
to work in St Joseph’s Hospice for the Dying in 1947. In 1957 Cicely Saunders arrived at the hospice and encouraged a new
medical approach to pain and symptom control, and the inclusion of the family as part of the unit of care. The interview also
describes the development of home care at St Joseph’s in the early 1970s, when Sister Mary Antonia worked closely with Dr
Richard Lamerton. The style of the narrative is anecdotal with many stories of patients and families, nuns and nurses. In
the early 1980s Sister Mary Antonia travelled to the USA and Switzerland to speak on hospice care, and she also talks of foreign
visitors to St Joseph’s. Sister Mary Antonia died in Dublin in 2001.
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| Interview conducted by David Clark, 28 November 1995 |
| Interview Duration: 52 minutes |
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