‘Simple and straightforward’: The €4,500 naming of the National Children’s Hospital Ireland
It could have been different, except that ‘Phoenix’ rose from the ashes only to be shot down by a healthcare facility in Arizona
Kathleen Lynn
Paediatric hospital to be known as National Children’s Hospital Ireland under proposals to be considered by Cabinet
There had been efforts to have the new hospital called after Kathleen Lynn
Glasnevin Cemetery’s Queer History Tour: ‘If you’re here for the drama, you’ll get it’
Guide Anna Collins on the radical characters who feature on a tour introduced to mark Dublin Pride
Dublin’s strangest museum opens its doors and TDs express fears at Oireachtas AI committee
Overheard: Dubliner Paul Mangan’s collection of bizarre items grew so much his friends joked he should open a museum - so he did
Irish revolutionary Madeleine ffrench-Mullen to be honoured with plaque at childhood home
Ffrench-Mullen with her lover Dr Kathleen Lynn founded St Ultan’s Hospital for children in Dublin
Kathleen Lynn Hospital, Dolores O’Riordan Park and Catherine Corless Place: Readers on how we should honour Irish women
We asked Irish Times readers if there were any streets, buildings, places or structures in Ireland that they thought should be named, or renamed, after women
Emma Donoghue: ‘With birth, it’s a real spin of the roulette wheel. Women’s lives have always been determined by this crapshoot’
The writer on her new stage adaptation of The Pull of the Stars, her novel set over three feverish days in the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital
Lavery, Yeats and le Brocquy beat estimates in first sales of the year
Irish banknotes also beat expectations in strong sale
1916 medal of ‘doctor and belligerent’ Kathleen Lynn for sale
Dr Lynn’s 1916 Rising Service Medal for sale with €20k-€30k estimate
Treaty details signal the end of unity in Cumann na mBan
Majority of women in the organisation voted in February 1922 to reject the terms offered as did the six women TDs in Dáil
The exceptionalism of daughters of the Irish clergymen
Daughters were expected to earn their own living. Education was a priority
Links to slave trade evident across Ireland
‘The Irish tended to have a very strongly held belief in their own white racial superiority’
Coronavirus: forgotten lessons of the Spanish flu pandemic
There’s a ‘collective amnesia’ in Ireland around the deadly outbreak of 1918-19
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