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Letters to the Editor: Fitting that new hospital be named after the outstanding Dr Lynn

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

Sat, 13 Jan, 2024 - 02:00

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.

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