A Life in Medicine From Asclepius to Beckett

In his memoir, Eoin O’ Brien, a cardiologist with an international reputation as a clinical scientist, recounts his life in medicine and literature.

Eoin O’ Brien, who has held professorial positions at both the Royal College of Surgeons and at University College Dublin, is author of several highly regarded volumes: among them, The Beckett Country: Samuel Beckett’ s Ireland, Conscience and Conflict: A Biography of Sir Dominic Corrigan, 1802– 1880, and A Portrait of Irish Medicine: an Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland. He also co-edited Ethna MacCarthy: Poems with Gerald Dawe (Lilliput, 2019). John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter.