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15 Euros Dr. Kathleen Lynn
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 15 Euros |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Kathleen Lynn was a Sinn Féin activist, suffragist, and medical doctor who co-founded St. Ultan's Hospital in Dublin in 1919 — the first hospital in Ireland staffed entirely by women and dedicated exclusively to infants, many of them dying from tuberculosis and malnutrition in the post-Rising slums. The British authorities considered her sufficiently dangerous that she spent periods on the run before eventually serving as a TD. This coin is part of the Central Bank's "Inspiring People" collector series, which has drawn on figures whose civic contributions long went underacknowledged in official commemorations.
St. Ultan's pioneered BCG vaccination uptake in Ireland during the 1930s under Lynn's direction.