Letter from Edward J. Birmingham to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 26 February 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Edward J Birmingham

This work was originally published by Maynooth University in Ireland in 2017. In 2026 this data, stored in a relational database was extracted and converted into this TEI/XML document.

 Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Vienna, AT 2026

This is an open access work licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Letter from Edward J. Birmingham to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877 - 1946). Birmingham writes to thank Skeffington to confirm plans for a get together, though says if she is truly suffering she can meet with him earlier.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.

 National Library of Ireland Sheehy Skeffington Papers, Collection List No. 47, MS 33,604/16-26 https://letters1916.ie/item/1014 English Edward J Birmingham 1916-02-26T00:00:00 32 Harocurt Street, Dublin, Ireland Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Male Country and City Life Country and City Life

The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).

 32, Harcourt Street Dublin Feb 26 1916 Dear Mrs Sheehy Skeffington Thanks very much for the £2 received. Thursday Feb (March 2 nd) at 4.00 PM will be suitable to me if convenient for you. Of course, if you are suffering pain, come at once. Yours Faithfully Edward J. Birmingham 32 Harocurt Street, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Edward J. Birmingham to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 26 February 1916 Edward J Birmingham Letter from Edward J. Birmingham to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 26 February 1916