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32 Hollybank Ave, Ranelagh. Feb 18th '16 Dear Mrs. Skeffington, I am keeping one more ticket, I
had already got one from Mrs. Aldham. Yours in haste M. Townshend. I enclose postal order 2/.
Letter from Maude Townshend to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946). Townshend returns
a ticket that Skeffington had sent her as she already received the ticket they required.Hanna
Sheehy Skeffington, suffragette, nationalist, language teacher, was the widow of Francis
Sheehy-Skeffington (who was summarily executed on 26 April 1916). She was active during
the Rising, bringing food to the Volunteers in the G.P.O. and the College of Surgeons.
Four days passed before she found out what had happened to her husband, Francis (1878-1916),
and it wasn't until almost two weeks later that the full details of his execution
emerged.