Letters to the Editor: Fitting that new hospital be named after the outstanding Dr Lynn
Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine ffrench-Mullen with infants at St Ultan's Hospital in Dublin, c 1920. Picture: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
The 28th of this month marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the outstanding figures of modern Irish history.
Kathleen Lynn co-founded the first children’s hospital in Ireland at a time when Dublin suffered one of the highest infant mortality rates in all of Europe. That was St Ultan’s on Charlemont St, Dublin, then a deprived district at the edge of the city centre.
