Telegraph to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 16 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Chancery Lane, London, England

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This telegraph to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) expresses condolences regarding the death of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, Hanna's husband, from a meeting of United Suffragists in London. The United Suffragists were a group of suffragists comprised of both men and women of militant and non-militant beliefs. 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.

 National Library of Ireland Sheehy-Skeffington Papers, Collection List No.47; MS 33,605/1-7 https://letters1916.ie/item/3544 English Chancery Lane, London, England 1916-05-16 Chancery Lane, London, England Hanna Sheehy Skeffington 11 Grosvenor Pl, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland Politics Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Politics

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 16 May 16 MRS SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON 11 GROSVENOR PLACE RATHMINES DUBLIN MASS MEETING OF UNITED SUFFRAGISTS IN PORTMAN ROOMS LONDON ASSEMBLED TO DO HONOUR TO THE MEMORY OF FRANCIS SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON DESIRES TO EXPRESS THEIR PROFOUND SYMPATHY WITH YOU IN YOUR GREAT SORROW THEIR DEEP SENSE OF THE LOSS THAT HAS BEEN SUSTAINED BY THE GREAT PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT OF WHICH THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IS A PART AND THEIR REALISATION ALSO OF THE TRUTH THAT FREEDOM ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL GAIN IMMEASURABLY BY HIS COURAGEOUS LIFE AND DEATH Chancery Lane, London, England Telegraph to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 16 May 1916 Chancery Lane, London, England Telegraph to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 16 May 1916 11 Grosvenor Pl, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland Postcard to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 16 February 1916Telegraph to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 16 May 1916Letter from Laurence Ginnell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 19 May 1916