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109 Lr Baggot St. Dublin 6th Jan. '16 My dear Hanna, I hope you will
forgive my unintentional
rudeness for not having
acknowledged receipt
of tickets before this. It was
very good of you to send
them to me. I enjoyed
the lecture very much
indeed & am more than
glad to see how well
our Dublin 'felon' is
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looking, his American
trip must have done
him a lot of good
physically as well as
in other ways. I enclose
2/— for tickets which
I should have sent
before this but I thought
I should have seen
more of you last
night. I must try
to go round to the
I.W.F.L. some Tues.
evening, but as
Tues. is an Irish class
night I find it
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hard to get away. Wishing you & Mr
Skeffington every happiness &
good luck luck in the New
year, Your sincere friend Úna Nà SÃotcáin, (Agnes Sheehan)
Letter from Agnes Sheehan to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946). Sheehan sends a
thank you to Skeffington for tickets to a lecture and mentions that she will try call
into the Irish Women's Franchise League some Tuesday evening but it will be difficult
seeing as her Irish class is on the same night. 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.