Letter from The O'Rahilly to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 19 February 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Michael Joseph O'Rahilly

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Letter from Michael Joseph O'Rahilly (1875-1916) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) thanking Hanna for the tickets and wishes her well for the upcoming concert. O'Rahilly also writes about the commonalities between the Irish suffragist movement and themes in Gaelic civilization. Michael Joseph O'Rahilly ('The O'Rahilly') was a prominent member of the Irish Volunteers. Initially opposed to the Easter Rising he was active in trying to prevent it but once it went ahead he joined the garrison in the GPO. He was shot in Parnell Street/Moore Street on 28 April 1916 while leading a charge from the burning GPO and died some time later. Sean T. O'Kelly was a politician and later president of Ireland.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 33,604/16-27 https://letters1916.ie/item/1016 English Michael Joseph O'Rahilly 1916-02-19 40 Herbert Park, Dublin, Ireland Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Male Country and City Life Politics Culture and the Arts

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 Páirc herbert a 40 Át Cliat Feab 19 1916 A cára, I am enclosing 4/= for the tickets and hope your concert will be a success. Would it be possible to make the Irish Suffragist movement rather more closely associated with Gaelicism than it is? Music were features of Gaelic civilization that were quite in harmony with the modern movement & which might with advantage be emphasized now. The names of married women for instance In the Gaeltacht still andin when Ellen Stack marries John Sullivan she does not become Mrs Sullivan. She becomes Ellen Stack, the wife of John Sullivan, and in conversation she is universally described as Ellen Stack. It seems a pity that the Suffrage Party should not press this distinct feminist etc custom. Mise de cára Ua Raigaille 40 Herbert Park, Dublin, Ireland Letter from the Office of the Chief Commissioner of Police to Nancy O'Rahilly, 19 June 1916Letter from The O'Rahilly to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 19 February 1916Postcard from Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill (Coyle) to Nancy O'Rahilly, c. May 1916. Michael Joseph O'Rahilly Letter from The O'Rahilly to Hely's Limited, 1915/1916Letter from Michael O'Rahilly to Seán T. O'Kelly, 18 December 1915Letter from The O'Rahilly to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 19 February 1916Letter from The O'Rahilly to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 2 March 1916Letter from William Pearse to The O'Rahilly, 21 April 1916Letter from James Connolly to The O'Rahilly, 24 April 1916