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A letter from Annie Stanley (1887-1960) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946). Stanley writes to say she cannot take part in the concert as she is too busy. Annie T. Stanley (née Walker), more famously known by her stage name Eileen O'Doherty, was one of the founding members of the Irish National Theatre Society and a forerunner at the Abbey Theatre alongside her sister Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh. She was also the wife of Joseph Stanley (1890-1950) who entered the G.P.O. during Easter Week to act as the press officer and was responsible for publishing the "Irish War News" during Easter week. 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.
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).