Julia helps her, and they discuss politics in Ireland. Lynn appears and asks Julia to aid with Ita’s autopsy before she leaves. Julia learns that Bridie boards with nuns at the motherhouse as she is an orphan who was raised in an Irish Catholic residential school.ĭr. The day shift is over, and Julia and Bridie leave. She is unmarried and on her second illegitimate pregnancy.

Later, Ita has a seizure and dies suddenly.Ī new patient, Honor White enters the ward. Lynn commends Julia on saving Delia, gives her authority to prescribe medications, and leaves. Since there is no physician, Julia manually removes it herself, saving her life. Delia then begins hemorrhaging due to her placenta being stuck. Delia gives birth to a still-born girl, with Julia’s assistance. Julia sends for a doctor but they are busy. Lynn is a suffragette, socialist, and anarchist who aided the Easter Rising in 1916.ĭelia suddenly enters labor prematurely. Lynn, a private practice obstetrician who will help in the hospital due to their lack of doctors. The orderly who brought in Mary, Groyne, tells Julia what he heard about Dr. She is in labor, but her contractions are still very far apart. Julia sets her to work, noting that she learns fast and has good bedside manner.Ī new patient is brought in, Mary O’Rahilly, who is 17 years old and pregnant for the first time. She is an unexperienced volunteer sent by Sister Luke to aid Julia, since she is alone. She checks on Ita Noonan and Delia Garrett, the two others.Ī young woman named Bridie Sweeney enters the ward. Julia sees that one patient, Eileen Devine, has died overnight. She switches off the overnight nurse, who tells her she will by herself leading the ward today, as her supervisor is needed elsewhere. She works in the small, makeshift Fever/Maternity ward for pregnant women with grippe. The city is ravaged by the war and the Spanish flu, referred to as grippe.

In “Red,” midwife Julia goes to work at a Dublin hospital on October 31st 1918.

Harper Avenue, 2020.ĭonoghue divides the novel into four sections: Red, Brown, Blue, and Black which depict three days in the life of narrator, Julia Power. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Donoghue, Emma.

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