Dr James Barry was many things in his life: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.  He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment, and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down in Scutari.  At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier.  But most astonishingly, long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had been a young girl and a mother...