Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to the Deputy Adjutant General at Parkgate, 26 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Kathleen Lynn

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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.

 Military Archives of Ireland Br. Allen Collection, IE/AL/KL/1/17 https://letters1916.ie/item/836 English Kathleen Lynn 1916-05-26 Mountjoy Prison, Dublin Parkgate, Dublin Female Easter Rising Ireland 1916

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 1006 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 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 Mountjoy Prison, Dublin Letter from Foreman of Works to Charles Arthur Munro, 13 November 1915Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to the Deputy Adjutant General at Parkgate, 26 May 1916 Parkgate, Dublin Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to the Deputy Adjutant General at Parkgate, 26 May 1916 Kathleen Lynn Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to the Deputy Adjutant General at Parkgate, 26 May 1916Letter from Maud Joynt to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 28 May 1916Letter to Dr Kathleen Lynn from the Assistant Provost Marshal, 28 May 1916Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to Miss Carney, 6 June 1916Letter from Robert Childers Barton to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 11 July 1916Letter from Major C. Harold Heathcote to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 13 October 1916Letter from Kathleen Lynn to Nancy O'Rahilly, 23 November 1916.Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to Dora, 31 October 1916Letter from John Pedder to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 2 August 1916Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn, [post-April 1916]