It was a long, long way from Tipperary
But their story was ‘old hat’ to a certain group of feisty young women who paved the way for them in the ‘50s.
In February 1957, young nurse Celia Greene arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, to work at Mount Sinai Hospital. She was alone and didn’t know another soul, but that was all part of the adventure for this woman who had grown up on a farm in Co Tipperary, the youngest of six children. As her older siblings had flown the nest, Celia had been left at home with her elderly parents, until, following the death of her father and the return to the farm of two brothers, she went to train as a nurse in London.
