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Letter from Florence Salkeld to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946). Salkeld writes that she likely will not be able to recite at Skeffington's upcoming concert, because she never publicly recites and also because her only current recitation is completely in Irish. If Skeffington is short singers, Salkeld writes that she may be able to recite her Irish song. 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.
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