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Professional medical practitioners in the Gaelic world of Ireland and Scotland was mainly the preserve of a small number of learned families who passed the profession down generation by generation. This principle was practised by other learned families of poets, historians, musicians, and lawyers.
Katherine A. Fitzgerald - Irish-American Molecular biologist and virologist; John Benjamin Murphy - Physician and abdominal surgeon. Several medical terms are named after him including: Murphy's button, Murphy drip, Murphy’s punch, Murphy’s test, and Murphy-Lane bone skid.
There were at least three families of this name in Gaelic Ireland. Ó Siadhail of Ui Maine, now east County Galway. Ó Siadhail of Uí Failghe, now County Offaly and County Laois. Ó Siadhail of Tír Chonaill, now County Donegal. Little is recorded of the Ui Maine family.
Today, the political family is represented by former City Councilmember, Ohio Secretary of State candidate, and Franklin County Clerk of Courts Maryellen O'Shaughnessy, whose father Robert was a state senator and World War II veteran.
Ó hÍceadha (in English: Hickey; O'Hickey) is a surname of Irish origin. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Hickeys were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC.
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MacCormac family of County Armagh, Northern Ireland (13 P) Pages in category "Irish medical families" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Hickey is a common surname of Irish origin. The original form Ó hÍceadha, which is still used in Ireland, was one of the Irish medical families in Gaelic times. Notable people with the surname include: