Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced by Rob Greaves and podcast through the Toorak Times and Tagg” style=”3d” color=”orange”][/vc_cta][/vc_column][/vc_row]Welcome to Listen To Older Voices and the second of a 3-part program featuring the Life & Times of Veronica Ireland.
Veroniva and her mother – [CLICK to enlarge]
In the last program we learned that Veronica was born in 1944, and, born deaf. This seriously impeded her ability to learn as a child. On eventually gaining most of her hearing she thrived and after a few false starts, she became a psychiatric nurse.
This week her stories of her nursing career continue and we are both amazed and enthralled at her tale of a man who entered the nurses home with a loaded rifle, shot a woman in the hip, and how it was Veronica got the rifle off the man, winning her a medal from the Humane Society of Australia.
Veronica’s Humane Society Medal – [CLICK to enlarge]
Her life is fill of up’s and downs, and in one major moment of down, Veronica is involved in a head-on car accident, which severely damages her sternum, an injury that is initially and painfully misdiagnosed.
Yet not even this keeps her away from her work and it forms a career spanning many decades all forming part of an entertaining and informative program.
The program picks up with Veronica talking about how one of the benefits of her work in a psychiatric facility was extended time off.
Click to hear – Veronica Ireland – Part 2
Previous Listen To Older Voices Programs can be found in our archive, by clicking on one link or the other
– 2012 to 2016
– 2016 onward
[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government
through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]
I have been with the Toorak Times since April 2012. I worked as Senior Editor of the Toorak Times until 2023, when I retired. I now work as a special features contributor for both the Toorak Times and Tagg. I've been in the Australian music scene as a musician since 1964, and have worked in radio and TV and newspapers (when they were actually printed on paper) as well as working in the film industry, as the Film Unit manager on Homicide for several years. I also have extensive experience in audio production and editing.
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