Career
The Dungiven hurling team was renamed Kevin Lynch"s Hurling Club in his honour after his death. Lynch was the youngest in a family of eight children born to Paddy and Bridie Lynch in Park, north County Londonderry. Lynch"s older brother, Frank, was an amateur boxer and Kevin also participated in boxing as well as Gaelic football and hurling.
Lynch was tried, convicted and sentenced to ten years for stealing shotguns, taking part in a punishment shooting and conspiring to take arms from the security forces.
He was sent to the Maze Prison in December 1977. He became involved with the blanket protest, joined the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike on 23 May 1981 and died 71 days later.
He is commemorated on the Irish Martyrs Memorial at Waverley Cemetery in Sydney, Australia.