Emigrant-turned-rebel was ‘enemy alien’
Emigrant-turned-rebel was ‘enemy alien’
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By Mark Hennessy (for the Irish Times)

Diarmuid Lynch was said to have been the last man to leave the burning GPO during Easter week in 1916. A naturalised US citizen, he was eventually deported in 1918, but the British had long wanted rid of him before the Rising.

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