Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)

As a Mayo TD, I wholeheartedly endorse naming the new children's hospital "Ospidéal Náisiúnta Kathleen Lynn do Leanaí". Imagine what it took for a woman to become a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons back in 1909. Kathleen Lynn was a republican, a pioneer, a feminist and, above all, a Mayo woman and a Killala woman. She is a huge personal inspiration to me and many others. Dr. Lynn was a member of the executive committee of the Irish Women’s Suffrage and Local Government Association in 1903. She assisted in soup kitchens during the 1913 Lockout, taught first aid to Cumann na mBan and served as chief medical officer of the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Rising. During the Rising, Dr. Lynn was the only woman to serve at the rank of commandant. She refused to be broken by her incarceration and her deportation after the Rising and in 1919 she and a number of other female medics founded a children's hospital-----

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