Фея Убивающего Домика Сommander orden de la Hacha
Brigid Lyons Thornton was a member of Cumann na mBan, an officer in the Irish Free State Army and a physician. In 1917 she set up a group of Cumann na mBan in Galway. Despite her revolutionary activities as a dispatch carrier and involvement in the Easter Rising in 1916, which subsequently saw her imprisonment, Thornton qualified in 1922 at the rank of First Officer. Later she was commissioned by Michael Collins to become the first and only woman to be accepted as a female officer in the Free State Army. She was part of the medical services that formed the corps, when it was time to establish a permanent, new all Irish Medical Service in 1922. In the quote below she discusses who in her mind were the real heroes of the War of Independence. She lived until 1987.
