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during this time as well as working with the Lapp's
Charity, Cork. In 1922 Hearn got membership of the RCPI, and on 18 October 1924 became the first woman to become a fellow of the college. Hearn maintained her qualification through postgraduate courses held in London every year until 1968.
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in Cork until 1922 when she was appointed to the
Victoria Hospital Cork in 1922 as an honorary anaesthetist. The following year she joined the staff as assistant medical officer and then as the medical officer. Hearn was running a private gynaecological practice near
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in the centre of Cork and died 3 June 1969 after a brief illness, at the
Victoria Hospital. The memorial fund in her honour was used to create a nurses' library. The RCPI's study and research room in Kildare Street is named the Hearn Room in her memory.
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was an engineer. Two of her brothers also became doctors, and one, N. Marshall
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ceremony. Hearn went on to gain her MD in 1922, when she was awarded first place and a special distinction in the examination.
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her colleagues. Her most popular annual fund-raiser was the tea and entertainment for outpatients at
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