Eliza Lynch

Eliza Lynch: The Uncrowned
Queen of Paraguay

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
October / November 2014

September 17, 2014 by </a> By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor<br/></a><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2014-archive/october-november-2014/">October / November 2014</a> 1 Comment

The Cork-born beauty who was the mistress of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay, and is today revered in Paraguay as a national heroine. Ireland’s Potato Famine forced 10-year-old Eliza from her native Cork to France, then to Algeria where she endured a bad but brief marriage to a French doctor whom she later dismissed as “a minor beast.” She left her husband for … [Read more...] about Eliza Lynch: The Uncrowned
Queen of Paraguay

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

Eliza Lynch: The Uncrowned
Queen of Paraguay

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