CO-KLBG-0265

Record Date: 
11 October 2013
Graveyard: 
Kilbrogan
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Tom Burke

3rd September 2013

Rest in Peace

Memorial Type: 
Plaque
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.755945
Longitude: 
-8.7363413888889
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Surgeon / Doctor
Name: 
Tom
Surname: 
Burke
Date of death - day: 
3
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
2013
Age: 
95
Address: 
Richmond, Blackrock Road, Cork
Notes: 

Tom Burke was born in Bandon in 1919, the youngest of the family of Edward & Mary Burke. (see graves 149 and 150) He was educated at Warner's Lane National School, which is now the site for Silversprings Housing Estate and using the new name of Casement Road.

The Burke family moved to Cork in 1928, where Tom continued his education at the Presentation Brothers College Cork. He entered UCC at a young age and his progress in academic studies was rapid, attaining a BA in Irish and German in 1937. During his studies he travelled to Bonn University in Germany and qualified in medicine in 1942.

Between 1942 and 1952 he worked in Sheffield, Newcastle and Chichester where he gained much experience. Tom was awarded his MCH in 1948 and FRCS Eng. in 1951. He was appointed to the South Infirmary as a consultant surgeon in 1962 where he remained until his retirement in 1984.

Tom was predeceased by his brother John (who was a solicitor in Cork) in 1971 and his sister Joan (who lived in Dublin) in 2002.