The writer on her new stage adaptation of The Pull of the Stars, her novel set over three feverish days in the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital
Kathleen Lynn
Irish banknotes also beat expectations in strong sale
Dr Lynn’s 1916 Rising Service Medal for sale with €20k-€30k estimate
Majority of women in the organisation voted in February 1922 to reject the terms offered as did the six women TDs in Dáil
Daughters were expected to earn their own living. Education was a priority
‘The Irish tended to have a very strongly held belief in their own white racial superiority’
There’s a ‘collective amnesia’ in Ireland around the deadly outbreak of 1918-19
A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views
We propose sites for new street names, sculptures for International Women’s Day
Brutality lingered as a set of attitudes long after it was banished as official practice
In this imagined conversation, Dr Kathleen Lynn pleads with archbishop Edward Byrne
Dublin’s infant mortality rate was abnormally high when two women opened a hospital for infants on Charlemont Street, with £100 and two cots
Artist achieved success in her lifetime only to be relatively forgotten in death
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