What Happened After the 1916 Entries Finish?

Lynn was kept in custody in Dublin until early June when she was deported to England. Unlike other prisoners she was not imprisoned in England, but sent to work with a doctor near Bath. Lynn returned to Ireland in the summer for a month to nurse her sister who was ill. By the end of the year she was back at her home in Rathmines, re-establishing her practice.

Lynn remained active in the Nationalist movement; she was elected vice-president of the Sinn Féin executive in 1917, and a TD for Dublin in 1923, although she didn’t take her seat. In 1919 she co-founded Saint Ultan’s Hospital for Infants on Charlmont Street, providing much needed medical and educational support to impoverished infants and their mothers.

Lynn made spasmodic diary entries in the two years following the event of 1916; by 1919 she established a more regular pattern and from that year until shortly before her death in 1955 she made almost daily entries. A full transcript of the dairies is available for researchers to consult in the Heritage Centre reading room, please contact us to make an appointment.