A little know fact is that Eliza Lynch from Co. Cork, Ireland became a Paraguay heroine by a very tortuous path
What is less known is that Bene Factress is her direct descendent and that Bene's letters were collected by her son ROMULO LYNCH-SOLANO: see the author ship which you may have overlooked in your zeal to pick holes in the Hull of her head piece forgiving my mixed metamorphosis.
http://www.amazon.com/Legion-Crisis-Factress-Romulo-Lynch-Solano-ebook/dp/B006RQ7M4S
Eliza Lynch, the Irish woman became ‘national heroine’ of South American country in the late 1800s.
Eliza Lynch, the ‘Queen of Paraguay,’ is to be honored in a commemorative weekend in her native Charleville in Cork on September 19-20.
Lynch was born in Charleville in 1833 to John and Elizabeth (nee Lloyd) Lynch. Her father was in the medical profession and moved in the upper echelons of society.
Lynch was the lover of the 19th century Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez and the mother of his seven children.
She also became a national heroine in her adopted country. She fought alongside Lopez during the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) in which Paraguay was fighting against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
Lopez and the couple’s eldest son were both killed in the war in 1870. Lynch buried them in the jungle with her bare hands.
In 2009, Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning published ‘The Lives of Eliza Lynch— Scandal & Courage’ which revealed Eliza’s Irish origins and her marriage at the age of 16 to a duplicitous French Army officer. In the book they reconstructed the systematic invention of her image as a prostitute around her first meeting with Solano Lopez, which occurred in Paris in 1854, the Irish Independent reports.
The commemorative weekend will include a seminar on her life by Lillis and Fanning and a screening of a film about her starring Maria Doyle Kennedy.
In 2013, Lynch’s great grandson, His Excellency Miguel Angel Solano Lopez, the ambassador of Paraguay to Ireland, visited Charleville to visit her birthplace.
Lynch was born in Charleville in 1833 to John and Elizabeth (nee Lloyd) Lynch. Her father was in the medical profession and moved in the upper echelons of society.
Lynch was the lover of the 19th century Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez and the mother of his seven children.
She also became a national heroine in her adopted country. She fought alongside Lopez during the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) in which Paraguay was fighting against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
Lopez and the couple’s eldest son were both killed in the war in 1870. Lynch buried them in the jungle with her bare hands.
In 2009, Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning published ‘The Lives of Eliza Lynch— Scandal & Courage’ which revealed Eliza’s Irish origins and her marriage at the age of 16 to a duplicitous French Army officer. In the book they reconstructed the systematic invention of her image as a prostitute around her first meeting with Solano Lopez, which occurred in Paris in 1854, the Irish Independent reports.
The commemorative weekend will include a seminar on her life by Lillis and Fanning and a screening of a film about her starring Maria Doyle Kennedy.
In 2013, Lynch’s great grandson, His Excellency Miguel Angel Solano Lopez, the ambassador of Paraguay to Ireland, visited Charleville to visit her birthplace.
