Brigid Lyons Thornton is one of the most well-known women of the Irish Revolutionary period. She was extraordinary in a multitude of ways, not only participating in the 1916 Rising, War of Independence and Civil War but simultaneously studying medicine and becoming a doctor. She was the first female commissioned officer in the National Army as First Lieutenant, Medical Officer and remained the only commissioned woman until 1981. She was the only woman to have been awarded a pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924.
Read our full blog entry on Brigid Lyons HERE.
