Growing up in rural poverty in Co. Limerick, Michael Dowling was surrounded by a “cacophony of nos.”

Fortunately for Dowling there was no better motivation than being told he couldn’t do something.

That spirit and a prodigious amount of hard work propelled him through University College Cork, success on the hurling pitch, further education and a professorship at Fordham, a long run as director of Health, Education and Human Service for his mentor Gov. Mario Cuomo, to his role today as the self-described “health care optimist” who leads New York State’s largest health care system and largest private employer as CEO of Northwell Health.

Dowling tells an epic immigrant’s tale in his new memoir “After the Roof Caved In: An Immigrant's Journey from Ireland to America” and in conversation with Martin Nutty and John Lee on this episode of Irish Stew.

Website: www.michael-dowling.com

After the Roof Caved In: Amazon

Leading Through a Pandemic: Amazon

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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