Kate O'Hanlon

{{Short description|Irish nurse}}

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Kate O'Hanlon (1930 in Belfast{{cite web |title=O'Hanlon, Kate, 1930- |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n2009031199 |website=Library of Congress Authorities |accessdate=16 December 2018}} – 2 August 2014) was an Accident & Emergency nursing sister at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. She wrote a book about her experiences, [http://www.abebooks.com/9780856408540/Sister-Kate-Nursing-Troubles-0856408549/plp Sister Kate: Nursing Through the Troubles], which was published by Blackstaff Press on 31 December 2010.{{cite book | url=http://blackstaffpress.com/product/sister-kate/ | title=Sister Kate: Nursing through the Troubles | publisher=Blackstaff Press | author=O’Hanlon, Kate | year=2010 | location=Belfast | pages=160 | isbn=978-0856408540 | edition=2nd}}

She worked in the RVH Falls Road casualty department from 1960 until the late 1980s. She helped treat victims of violence from all sides, such as bombings, shootings, stabbings, etc., including the Malvern Street shootings of 1966, the loyalist bomb attack on McGurk's Bar, the IRA bombing of the Abercorn Restaurant, the carbombing in Donegall Street which saw 150 casualties arrive, and Bloody Friday, among other incidents.[http://www.qaranc.co.uk/duke_of_connaught_unit.php QARANC website]

New methods of nursing care were developed and the RVH treated victims of rubber bullets, plastic baton rounds, and paramilitary punishments such as tarring and feathering, and drilled knee caps.

Kate died on 2 August 2014.{{Cite web |url=http://classifieds.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/advert/northern-ireland/family-notices/death-notices/290351/O-hanlon-Kathleen-sister-Kate-M-b-e-dame-Of-The-Order-Of-Malta-Death |title=Belfast Telegraph Death Notices |access-date=29 October 2014 |archive-date=29 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029214513/http://classifieds.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/advert/northern-ireland/family-notices/death-notices/290351/O-hanlon-Kathleen-sister-Kate-M-b-e-dame-Of-The-Order-Of-Malta-Death |url-status=dead }}