Letter from Mary Hayden (1862-1942) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877 - 1946). Hayden writes that she will be taking one of the tickets Hanna sent to her for the Irish Citizen fundraising concert, but must return the rest since she is not very good at selling tickets. Hayden hopes that Skeffington will have a good audience despite not always seeing eye-to-eye with the 'Irish Citizen'.Mary Hayden was a suffragette and historian. As one of the earliest women graduates of the Royal University of Ireland she became the professor of modern Irish history at University College Dublin in 1911. Although opposing militant protests as counterproductive, she sought justice in the treatment of protesters. Involved in various suffrage groups, in 1915 she and Mary Gwynn established another, the Irish Catholic Women’s Suffrage Association, to attract more Catholic women to the movement. Throughout her life she publicly advocated women’s rights, including demands for full citizenship in both the 1922 and 1937 constitutions.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.