Identity Statement
Title | Papers of Dr. John Fleetwood |
Archive Reference | IE RCPI/JF |
Web Link to this Entry | https://iar.ie/archive/papers-dr-john-fleetwood |
Creation Dates | c1940s-2007 |
Extent Medium | 6 boxes |
Context
Creator(s): John Fleetwood (1916-2007)
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Administrative History ↴
John Fleetwood was born in Dublin in 1916. He attended Blackrock College before studying medicine at UCD. Having qualified, Fleetwood volunteered for the Local Defence Force during the emergency, and worked at the Coombe hospital, before setting up in General Practice in Blackrock. Fleetwood became increasingly interested in gerontology (care of the elderly), having attended an International Gerontology conference. Fleetwood was instrumental in establishing the Irish Gerontological Society in 1950, and was an active member. He was also involved in founding of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Irish College of General Practitioners, was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and contributed regularly to the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. In 1961 Fleetwood was appointed to Our Lady's Hospice in Blackrock, were he spoke and wrote on gerontological subjects. He was also involved in palliative care and the hospice movement. Fleetwood researched and wrote widely on the history of his profession. He published “The History of Medicine in Ireland” (1951) and “The Irish Body Snatchers” (1988), as well as a variety of shorter pieces on a range of topics from Irish spas to an Irish Field Ambulance in the Franco-Prussian War. He also contributed regularly to medical publications such as Hospital Doctors of Ireland and Medicine Weekly. Fleetwood's wider literary interests included plays and pantomimes, of which he wrote several, the history of golf on which he published All the World's a Links in 1999, and he was a regular contributor to the RTE programme Sunday Miscellany. John Fleetwood died in July 2007. -
Archival History ↴
This collection was donated to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland by John Fleetwood. -
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
Donation
Content & Structure
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Scope & Content: John Fleetwood (1916-2007) ↴
Papers of Dr John Fleetwood relating both to his medical career and his activity as a medical historian.
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Appraisal Destruction ↴
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Arrangement ↴
SECTION 1 – Medical Career
SECTION 2 – History of Medicine
PART 1 – Reseach Files
PART 2 – Correspondence
PART 3 – Papers and Publications
SECTION 3 – Radio Work and Other Writing
SECTION 4 – Advertisements and Illustrations
SECTION 5 – Invitations, Menus and Programmes
SECTION 6 – Newspaper Cuttings
SECTION 7 – Miscellaneous
Conditions of Access & Use
Access Conditions | Access subject to the conditions laid out in the Heritage Centre Access Guidelines |
Conditions Governing Reproduction | Copying of archive material is subject to the conditions laid out in the Heritage Centre Copying Guidelines |
Creation Dates | c1940s-2007 |
Extent Medium | 6 boxes |
Finding Aids | The collection list is available on line and in the reading room Archive Web Link → |
Allied Materials
There are no Allied Materials
Descriptive Control Area
Archivist Note | Harriet Wheelock |
Rules/Conventions | ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000. IGAD: Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Dublin: Society of Archivists, Ireland, 2009.National Council on Archives: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names. Chippenham: National Council on Archives, 1997. |
Date of Descriptions | 40299 |