RTE Podcast- Our Founder - Dr. Barbara Stokes

Issued 17 January 2020

women on walls

Women on Walls is an eight-part podcast series celebrating the lives of eight Irish women who forged careers in healthcare during a time in Ireland when women were expected to stay at home...

 

Listen to Women on Walls Podcast : Dr. Barbara Maive Stokes (1922 – 2009)

Dr. Barbara Stokes first involvement with the association that would become St Michael’s House, a community-based service for people with an intellectual disability, was as a part-time volunteer; later she managed the entire organisation.

 Dr. Barbara Stokes was the first medical director in St. Michael's House in 1955.  See our full History

"We rushed in where many would fear to venture. The one essential was to meet and help parents who came to us not so much for a diagnosis, but for advice about what they should or could do to help their child with a disability."

Dr Barbara Stokes, first Medical Director.
Listen to Women on Walls: Dr. Barbara Maive Stokes (1922 – 2009)
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