Terence (Terry) Count MacSweeney, KCHS, M.Ch, M.Ch., (Orth)., FRCS FACS died in January this year, after a short illness due to a stroke. An honours UCC graduate (1943), in those carefree days I well remember him reiterating the lectures of the day A devout, man, he had a romantic streak in him. He attracted no envy and had a kindly regard for all.
After brief service as a student in, the Irish Army, and abroad with the RAE in India, he returned to Britain to settle to an orthopaedic career. Long years in teaching hospitals followed; 1960 saw him, appointed director of orthopaedics at the spinal unit at Robert Jones and Dame Agnus Hunt Hospital at Oswestry. He was there to receive Queen Elizabeth II and to conduct her, through the wards of that famous institution, and had many more distinguished visitors from the orthopaedic world.
He contributed to many learned journals, as well as chapters in leading textbooks. He was also much in demand as, an invited lecturer in universities in the Americas and throughout Europe. As Watson Jones Orator at the Royal Society of Medicine, he was very well received.
He leaves his sorrowing widow, Joan, a distinguished adult family. As Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulchre, he, will be remembered in Catholic circles throughout the world. It has been said that he was Cork's outstanding graduate of the century.