‘A DETERMINED MAN’—MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER, FIONÁN LYNCH

By Lasara Lynch Fionán Lynch was born on 17 March 1889 in Waterville, Co. Kerry. Irish was his first language and he attended Rockwell College and Blackrock College. He planned to study medicine, but his father died suddenly and instead he went to teach Irish in a school in Swansea, Wales, where he founded a ... Read more

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