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Surgeon’s surprise link to Irish insurrection<br />

• By Sophie Cornish<br />

CHRISTCHURCH surgeon<br />

Professor Frank Frizelle was<br />

receiving an international award<br />

in Ireland when he discovered<br />

family links to the 1916 Easter<br />

Rising.<br />

Prof Frizelle travelled to Dublin<br />

in July to receive one of the highest<br />

honours, an honorary fellowship<br />

from the Royal College of<br />

Surgeons in Ireland.<br />

Every award recipient received<br />

a citation written about them,<br />

from a college council member.<br />

“You never know what they are<br />

going to say until they say it,” said<br />

Prof Frizelle.<br />

“He (Professor Paul Burke)<br />

found a lot of stuff out that I<br />

never knew about; such as my<br />

great-grandfather had written<br />

to the Irish Government in his<br />

role as some sort of administrator,<br />

suggesting that they let go<br />

the leaders of the 1916 rebellion,<br />

however, they ignored him and<br />

shot them, eventually helping<br />

turning the tide of the popular<br />

feeling for independence,” he said.<br />

Prof Frizelle’s, great grandfather,<br />

Nicholas Frizelle, was<br />

county manager at a town named<br />

Wexford.<br />

He sent a letter to Michael<br />

O’Rahilly, also known as <strong>The</strong><br />

O’Rahilly, an Irish republican and<br />

nationalist who was the founding<br />

member of the Irish Volunteers<br />

in 1913.<br />

In the letter, he informed him<br />

the Wexford County Council had<br />

adopted a resolution requesting<br />

the Lord Lieutenant, who was<br />

Lord Wimborne, to cancel the<br />

orders for the imprisonment of<br />

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the Irish Volunteers, who were<br />

held after the Easter Rising.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Easter Rising, was an<br />

armed insurrection in Ireland<br />

during Easter Week, April 1916.<br />

It was launched by Irish<br />

Republicans to end the British<br />

rule in Ireland and establish an<br />

independent Irish Republic, while<br />

the United Kingdom was heavily<br />

engaged in World War 1.<br />

Prof Frizelle was unaware about<br />

his great grandfather’s letter and<br />

only knew that his parents have<br />

Irish heritage.<br />

<strong>The</strong> fellowship he received<br />

recognises his global leadership<br />

in surgery.<br />

It comes on the back of groundbreaking<br />

research from Prof<br />

Frizelle and his Otago University<br />

and Canterbury District Health<br />

Board research teams, who recently<br />

identified a toxic bug they<br />

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DISCOVERY: A council member from the Royal College of<br />

Surgeons in Ireland Paul Burke (left) surprised Christchurch<br />

surgeon Professor Frank Frizelle during a citation where<br />

he revealed to Prof Frizelle his family has links to the 1916<br />

Easter Rising. Prof Frizelle’s great-grandfather Nicholas<br />

Frizelle (above, middle) was the family member involved.<br />

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for the disease.<br />

Prof Frizelle said he was<br />

“delighted and privileged” to be<br />

recognised with the award which<br />

came “out of the blue.”<br />

He is a surgeon at Christchurch<br />

Hospital, Christchurch Colorectal<br />

in St Albans, editor in chief of <strong>The</strong><br />

New Zealand Medical Journal and<br />

head of university department of<br />

surgery at Otago University.<br />

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