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IRISH WOMEN'S FRANCHISE LEAGUE, ANTIENT CONCERT BUILDINGS 42e, GT. BRUNSWICK ST.,
DUBLIN. Dear Mrs. Skeffington Key of press is behind clock
& others are in press. I met
Miss Blake & she told me one
of the Teachers took away key
to hold meeting tonight here.
I think there might to be some
misunderstanding with those
people — they seem to be
holding meetings always. I am surprised at Miss Connery's
statement and can attribute
it to nothing but temper
which she exhibited to
a marked degree on last
Committee night. The matter
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re: food supplies for dance
was settled by the majority
of the Committee when it was
decided that the dance if it
has to be held at all was to
be run on strict business
lines and Miss Maxwell was
deputed to write & ask some
members if they were willing
to assist in organizing it
under these conditions. The matter can come
up again at next meeting &
you are perfectly at liberty
to read this at next Committee
meeting — in the presence
of Miss Connery. Miss. D.W. I came in this evening hoping to see
you as I am anxious to know how Maggie is.
Deborah Webb writes to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington regarding the latest Irish Women's
Franchise League meeting and the location of the key to the meeting room. She also
writes about another member, Mrs Connery, who expressed strong sentiments to one of
the issues raised. In the post script Webb says she came to the meeting to see Skeffington
and also inquire as to the health of Maggie. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946),
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.