Amazing survival story of West Cork doctor in the Second World War
With the release first of the Ifta-nominated documentary A Doctor’s Sword and now a fascinating book of the same name, Bob Jackson, a lecturer at Institute of Technology, Tralee, is spreading the legend of Dr Aidan MacCarthy.
Captured by the Japanese in Java at the height of the Second World War, MacCarthy, born in Castetownbere, West Cork, and who enlisted for the RAF as the war was breaking out, was held as a prisoner of war and ferried around various camps.
