Linda Kearns- A Revolutionary Irish Woman
...her lifelong mission to achieve greater rights for the nursing profession of which she herself was a member, and the wide range of issues in which she became involved. These included conditions in prisons and the lot of prisoners, the plight of refugees, and the rights of women in general and of nurses in particular.
This fascinating biography tells of her capture in November, 1920, and her terrible beating at the hands of the Head Constable, nicknamed ‘Spud’ Murphy. She subsequently spent terms of imprisonment in Derry, Belfast, Armagh, Liverpool and Mountjoy.