William Henry Emeris Burke was accepted at Queen’s College Medical School in 1862. He was not quite eighteen. A bright pupil he had a promising career ahead, no matter what he chose to do.

At the time the College had just began to offer a course in medicine. It was only two years long and the students had to attend other colleges in order to qualify as a doctor. This explains why William Henry Emeris Burke disappeared from the college records after 1864.

“Because of the inadequate hospital facilities in Galway it was not possible to obtain the required certificates without spending sometime elsewhere, usually in Dublin, London or Scotland.”

To Dublin, London and Scotland he went.

Sources

Galway : a medico-social history,Galway : Kenny’s Bookshop and Art Gallery 1994, James P. Murray