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1916 IRISH WOMEN'S FRANCHISE LEAGUE. WESTMORELAND CHAMBERS, WESTMORELAND STREET, DUBLIN. My dear Mrs Skeffington
I thought I may find you
in the office — I can only take
one ticket I am so hard up.
hope the concert will be a success
try to make the citizen stick
to suffrage Yrs Sincerely B. Dudley Edwards Hope you are all well well
Letter from Bridget Dudley Edwards (née McInerney) (1871-1956) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.
Edwards writes that she can only take one ticket for the fundraising concert in aid
of the 'Irish Citizen' and hopes that the concert will be a success.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.