The Irish Nurses in the NHS podcast launches this July to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the inception of the NHS.

Since the NHS was set up in 1948 thousands of women and men from Ireland have come to train and nurse in the UK.  

Recruitment drives throughout the 1950s and 60s saw NHS staff travel around Ireland to interview and sign up mainly Irish teenage girls for nurse training. Irish Nurses in the NHS shares the experiences and lives of nurses who travelled from Ireland and helped build the health service over these decades and beyond. 

In this series you'll hear from dozens of these nurses about their motivations to leave home, how they adapted to their new lives in Britain and what their training entailed, including many funny memories as well as some sad ones.  

It will look at questions like what was it like to leave Ireland at 18 and arrive in a new and unfamiliar country? How were they welcomed and what was life like in Britain?  This podcast series aims to answer these questions and brings to life the untold stories of Irish nurses in the NHS. 

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