Kathleen Lynn

Kathleen Lynn
Lynn as she appeared in a 1927 piece of election material
Vice President of Sinn Féin
In office 1923–1927
Leader	Éamon de Valera
Teachta Dála
In office August 1923 – June 1927
Constituency	Dublin County
Personal details
Born	(1874-01-28)28 January 1874 Killala, County Mayo, Ireland
Died	14 September 1955(1955-09-14) (aged 81)
Education	Alexandra College
Alma mater	Royal University of Ireland
Military service
Branch/service	Irish Citizen Army
Rank	Captain/Chief Medical Officer
Battles/wars	Easter Rising

Kathleen Florence Lynn (28 January 1874 – 14 September 1955) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, political activist and doctor.

Lynn was so greatly affected by the poverty and disease among the poor in the west of Ireland that, at 16, she decided to be a doctor. She was educated in England and Germany, before enrolling in the Royal University of Ireland, a forerunner to the UCD School of Medicine. Following her graduation in 1899, Lynn went to the United States, where she worked for ten years, before returning to Ireland to become the first female doctor at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital (1910–1916). In 1919, she founded Saint Ultan's Children's Hospital.