Clodagh Finn: ‘Mrs Come Quick’ — a tribute to our rural midwives
Known as the ‘bhean ghlúine’ (literally woman of the knee) or ‘handy woman', she went out at all hours, in all weather, to support women through the precarious business of childbirth
Midwife Mary Anne Fanning features in a new exhibition, launched this week, at NMI — Country Life, Turlough Park, called ‘Mary Anne Fanning: Remembering Our Community Midwives’.
She was known as the ‘bhean ghlúine’ (literally woman of the knee) or ‘handy woman’, and she went out at all hours, in all weather, to support women through the precarious business of childbirth.
The local communities who revered the community midwife had other names for her too – Mrs Come Quick, for instance, or the rabbit-catcher.
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