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Amiens May 14th 1916 Dear M Seehy I am so anxious
about you all that I would
be very thankful to any one
of the family if he could give
me some news about you
all. I am afraid, though,
that "Gerrie" is quite forgotten,
since my letters or cards
were unanswered for the last
three years. But as I have
not forgotten you and never
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Ireland and my Irish
family Germaine Mrs Denis Fontaine
98 Rue Louis Chuillier
Amiens
France
Denis Fontaine writes to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) on the 14th of May,
1916, anxious to hear news about Sheehy Skeffington's family despite an apparent 3
year estrangement.
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) 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.