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Dr. K Lynn Mountjoy Fl Prison 26.5.16 To the Deputy Adjutant General,
Parkgate Dublin. Dear Sir I hear my letter
to the Provost Marshall
re property taken
from me in Ship St
barracks has been
referred to you.
I have further to
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request that my
surgical instruments,
fur coat hat , parcel con-
taining clothing & a
pair of shoes which
I left in the dressing
room, 18. Beresford
Place (Liberty Hall) on
Monday April 24th May
be returned to me! Yours faithfully, K. Lynn
Letter from Dr. Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955) to the Deputy Adjutant General at Parkgate.
In this letter, written from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Dr. Lynn requests the return
of her surgical instruments, fur coat, hat, parcel of clothing and a pair of shoes
which she left in the dressing room of Liberty Hall on Monday 24 April, 1916.Dr Kathleen
Lynn was a medical practitioner, a suffragist, a nationalist, and a revolutionary.
Lynn was Chief Medical Officer of the Irish Citizen Army during Easter 1916, and was
a part of the City Hall garrison, of which she took command after the death of Seán
Connolly.. After independence, Lynn played a major role in improving public health
including the eradication of tuberculosis in Ireland.