A Doctor On the Front Line

Irish Voice, October, 2005 by Brennan, Georgina

Brennan, Georgina Irish Voice 10-18-2005 IN an era of self-serving memoirs by stars whose lights flicker out quicker than a candle, Dr. Kevin Cahill has written a very moving and lasting memoir about his romance with his late wife Kathryn Cahill and his observations of suffering and death around the world. Like an old movie unfolding slowly but completely before your eyes, To Bear Witness, a Journey of Heeding and Solidarity (Fordham University Press) involves the observer in a way few humanitarian writers have ever done. Cahill, familiar to almost all Irish Americans in different ways because he is both historian and healer, says he decided last year to compile the writings he had published and many more of his unpublished thoughts because it was time. His...

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