He immediately flew to Dublin, hired a car to drive the couple of hundred miles to Youghal and arrived home just before the doctor appeared.

NPR: Cockburn's 'Broken Boy,' a Memoir of Survival

Dr. John Gowen, a neatly dressed handsome man originally from England with a small practice in Youghal, arrived in his car at Brook Lodge two hours later.

NPR: Cockburn's 'Broken Boy,' a Memoir of Survival

We owned no car and Paddy had been driving me in a horse and trap to the Loreto convent, a red-brick building on a hill overlooking Youghal bay, where the nuns were slowly teaching me to read and write.

NPR: Cockburn's 'Broken Boy,' a Memoir of Survival