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MARCH 1916 2 Dartmouth Villas
Leeson Park Friday Will you and Owen come
and have dinner with
us on Sunday next at
1.30. hope Owen got his cake
all right Yrs B. Dudley Edwards
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Mrs Sheehy Skeffington M.A.
Mr C H Russell
11 Grosvenor Place
Rathmines
Postcard from Bridget Dudley Edwards (née McInerney) (1871-1956) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
(1877-1946) inviting Skeffington and her son Owen to dinner next Sunday.
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington suffragette, nationalist, language teacher, was the founder
of the Irish Women’s Franchise League and a founding member of the Irish Women Workers’
Union. She 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.