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16, SANDYMOUNT AVENUE,
DUBLIN. PHONE. BALLSBRIDGE 455. Dear Mrs Sheehy Skeffington I enclose a paper
of my speech
of last Saturday night. If it is
in time & you think it good enough
print it in the Irish Citizen. I am yours sincerely Clara Moser. Nov 30th
1915
Letter from Clara Moser (b. 1873) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) enclosing
a speech she has made and requests that Hanna print it in the Irish Citizen if she
thinks it's good.
Clara Moser was the secretary of the Irishwomen's Reform League, a non-militant suffrage
organization, and the Dublin Watch Committee.
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.