Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn, [post-April 1916] Letters 1916-1923 Kathleen Lynn

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This is an undated and unaddressed letter from Dr. Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955), to an unnamed person. In this letter, Dr Lynn states that she has just received a letter from a person in Aylesbury Prison. The Aylesbury prisoner sends her love to all the 'rebelly crew', and asks for entertaining gossip. Lynn suggests that the recipient was happier in Mountjoy Gaol. Lynn notes, however, that the prisoner had a pleasant journey across the Irish Sea.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 of the garrison after the death of Seán Connolly on the first day of the Rising. After independence, Lynn dedicated much time and energy towards the improvement of public health, and played a significant role in the eradication of tuberculosis in Ireland.

 Military Archives of Ireland Br. Allen Collection, IE/AL/KL/1/24 https://letters1916.ie/item/5912 English Kathleen Lynn 1916 Female Easter Rising Ireland 1916

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 I have just had a letter from Aylesbury & can write. She sends her love to all the 'rebelly crew' & wants a lot of gossip to amuse her. But of course it must be absolutely non- political. Do you think any of the Transport Union people would care to send her a message. Could you per- haps get someone to go to headquarters there & find out. I am sure from what she said she would love a nice friendly message from them. If you haven't time Miss French Mullen might perhaps manage? She finds Aylesbury very lonely after Mountjoy where there were seagulls & pigeons & a black spaniel with long sillky ears & a nice convict baby & a melodion & a man who played Irish airs on a bugle behind a wall & nice soft Irish voices everywhere. But she had a lovely passage journey & looked out at the sea through a sunny port- hole & saw an air ship. And the garden is nice at Aylesbury. She made pens out of rooks tail feathers at Mountjoy, she found in the garden much better for black & white words than most pens. She says at Aylesbury they exercise round & round in a ring, Come old hunters in the summer & pass a splendid bed of carrots. The hollyhocks are beautiful. Please collect any gossip or mesages you can think of & send them to me for her. Haste fi. 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]