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57 Grosvenor Square Rathmines Feb 1916 Dear Mrs Skeffington I'm so sorry
I shan't be able to help
on the 20th but I have
an engagement on that
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evening — Sunday is
always a very bad
evening for me. I hope you will
like the plays & that you
will tell me what you
think of the productions. I'm regretfully James E. Young
Card from James Young to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877 - 1946). Young writes that
he will not be able to attend the fundraising concert for the 'Irish Citizen' on 20
February.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.