Card from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 9 December 1915 Letters 1916-1923 Kathleen Cantwell

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Card from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) enclosing an account of a meeting at which they got ten new members. Cantwell apologises if the account is not very good. She writes that both her servants have been ill and it is difficult to manage themselves. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), suffragette, nationalist, language teacher, 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 33,612/14-6 https://letters1916.ie/item/3941 English Kathleen Cantwell 1915-12-09 Beauparc, Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Female Politics Country and City Life Politics

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 BEAUPARC, MONKSTOWN, CO.DUBLIN. September 12, 1915 Dear Mrs. Sheffington I will close you a scribble about my "at Home". It was a freak success I think & we got 10 new members who seemed most entusiastic. I do not know if the account will be of any use to you. I hadn't time to write it properly. Imagine I have 2 servants in Baggot St. Hos. One with apprendicities - to-day &: one this 5 weeks with a shoulder ill. I am depending on nurse & ourselves so we are upside down. Yrs sincerely Kathleen Cantwell Kathleen Cantwell Card from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 20 February 1916Letter from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 10 May 1916Letter from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 17 November 1915Letter from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 22 November 1915Card from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 9 December 1915 Beauparc, Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 22 November 1915Card from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 9 December 1915