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               <p>Card from Mary Hayden (1862 - 1942) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) stating that she will be able to manage running the next meeting and offering Hanna a number of choices on the meeting's content.

Mary Hayden was a suffragette and historian. As one of the earliest women graduates of the Royal University of Ireland she became the professor of modern Irish history at University College Dublin in 1911. Although opposing militant protests as counterproductive, she sought justice in the treatment of protesters. Involved in various suffrage groups, in 1915 she and Mary Gwynn established another, the Irish Catholic Women’s Suffrage Association, to attract more Catholic women to the movement. Throughout her life she publicly advocated women’s rights, including demands for full citizenship in both the 1922 and 1937 constitutions.

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.</p>
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             16 Rathmine's Rd   Nov. 23 1915  <lb/>I shall manage the 7th all right if you don't expect <lb/>anything much. Would you like a bit of talk on <lb/><hi rend="underline">war women,</hi> women who have been <seg type="unclear">victims</seg> or <lb/>  of one and on other <lb/>Joan of Arc of course, Hannah <lb/>Snell, Mary O'Donnell etc. just a talk from memory - <lb/>not written. Or a talk on women in old fashioned <lb/>novels. We are moving this week <hi rend="underline">47 Windsor</hi> <lb/><hi rend="underline">Road, Ranelagh,</hi>is the new address  <hi rend="underline">M Hayden</hi> 
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             Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington <lb/>Irish Womens Franchise League <lb/>Westmoreland Chambers <lb/>Westmoreland Street 
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