Letter from Agnes Sheehan to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 6 January 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Agnes Sheehan

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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.

 National Library of Ireland Sheehy Skeffington Papers, Collection List No. 47;, MS 33,604/15-5 https://letters1916.ie/item/986 English Agnes Sheehan 1916-01-06 Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Female Country and City Life Industry and Public Administration

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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 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 hard to get away. Wishing you & Mr Skeffington every happiness & good luck luck in the New year, Your sincere friend Úna Ní Síotcáin, (Agnes Sheehan) Agnes Sheehan Letter from Agnes Sheehan to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 6 January 1916