Dr. Patrick J. Treacy was fascinated by travel at an early age he lived in New York for a period before leaving his degree course in Medicine half way through to travel incognito through Iran, Kurdistan, Baluchistan, and Afghanistan in the early days of the Mujahadeen and the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution. He also travelled through Arabia and Northern Africa before returning to continue his studies to become a doctor. He witnessed the Israeli invasion of the Lebanon, the fall of the Iron Curtain and was one of the last people out of Kurdistan before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, while visiting the scene of the chemical bombing of Halabja. Like Thesiger, he visited the watery world of the Madan or Marsh Arabs, which unfortunately was destroyed as part of Saddam Hussein's revenge on these people for harbouring Shi'ite deserters from the Iran-Iraqi War.

Dr. Patrick Treacy M.D. Contents of Website 1981 "Crossing the Bosphorus" Istanbul Turkey  1982 'Church of the Nativity' Bethlehem Israel  Santorini Greece 1985 "A Sort of Homecoming" U2 Concert Dublin Ireland   1988 'Arriving in Dunedin'  South Island New Zealand 1988 "Fairytale of New York " Pogues Concert New Zealand 1987 'Travelling on the Grand Trunk Road' Calcutta India  1988 "The Birds of Freedom" Chang Mai Thailand  1989 "The times they are a- changin’" Berlin Wall Germany 1990 'Living with the Marsh Arabs' Qurnah Southern Iraq  1990 'Saddam's Children of the Revolution' Baghdad, Iraq 1990 'The tale of camraderie' Kurdistan Iraq  Ninevah Iraq 1990 The Iraqi Period 1992 'The Silence of the Savannah' Mombasa Kenya 1992 'On visiting Lenin's tomb' Moscow Russia   1992 'The first snows of winter' Moscow, Russia  1992 "The smoke that thunders" Victoria Falls Zimbabwe 1992 'When you play on the flute' Stone Island Zanzibar 1992 'Meeting the AIDS Orphans' Zimbabwe 1993 'Visiting John Lennon's Grave' Central Park New York 1993 "The day the Poms stopped whinging"  Okovanga Botswana    1993 "The Spirit of the Matapos Mountains" Rhodesia  1994 'On visiting Bob Marley's grave' Nine Miles Jamacia 1995 "The Mariachi's of Jalisco" Peurto Vallarta Mexico 1993 "A spectacular horizon" Port Canaveral, Florida 1996 "Capturing the dreamtime" Broken Hill, Australia RFDS, Broken Hill '96 1997 "O'Brien the Aborigine" Birdsville Hotel Queensland 1998 'Reflections on Table Mountain' Capetown, South Africa  2000 'Battle of the Brickyard'  Indianapolis Motor Speedway 2001 'Finding God at Ground Zero' World Trade Centre, New York 2001 'From famine to the land of plenty' Monaco Grand Prix  2002 'Questioning my Faith' Dachau Concentration Camp Bavaria 2003 UN Humanitarian Awards New York  2003 Professional Medical Journalist of Year 2003 'This was our finest hour' Special Olympics Dublin 2005 The Ailesbury Clinic, Dublin receives the ultimate accolade  UN Awards 2008 2008 House of Lords  Michael Jackson 2010 Haiti Earthquake Dr. Drew CNN 2011 2011 Aphrodite Jones  "Africa is crying"  Ailesbury Clinic Location of Ailesbury Clinic Ballsbridge, DUBLIN  Press Releases Articles About Us Autoresponder Irish Independent Newsletters U2 0ne

He has spent many days travelling through the continent of Africa and perfectly captures the magic of the Maasai, the growing silence of the savannah, the horror of HIV, and all the joy and pain that presently exists in that continent.