We accidentally picked a health themed episode before all of the coronavirus stuff started to really kick off. Prescient? Maybe. This week's episode is about nun and nurse Sister Anthony O'Connell AKA the Florence Nightingale of the Civil War AKA the Angel of the Battlefield.  Self isolate with us and learn about this badass woman who embedded with the Union Army during the American Civil War

Notes/ References

Limerick’s Life:  WHO WAS MARY O’CONNELL? AN ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD, Sharon Slater.

Angels of the Battlefield, George Barton

Sister Anthony O'Connell: Angel of the Orphan, the Sick, the Wounded, and the Outcast S.C. Judith Metz U.S. Catholic Historian, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2017, pp. 53-78 (Article) Published by The Catholic University of America Press

The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio (1852-Present), Michael Barga.

Irish America: The Irish Nightingale of the Civil War, Peter F. Stevens 

Irish Dictionary of Biography: O'Connell, Mary, Patrick M. Geoghegan.