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Hanna Sheehy-skeffingtonHanna Sheehy (27 May 1877—20 April 1946) was born in Kanturk, County Cork in Ireland. Sheehy (or Sheehy-Skeffington, as she was known after marrying Francis Skeffington) is remembered as an Irish feminist who, along with her husband and James Cousins and Margaret Cousins founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtain women's voting rights. Sheehy was also a founding member of the Irish Women's Workers' Union as well as an author whose works deeply opposed British imperialism in Ireland. Sheehy's Life Sheehy was educated at the Royal University in Dublin where she received a Master of Arts Degree. Sheehy married in this period becoming Sheehy-Skeffington and in 1908 founds the Irish Women's Franchise League, a group aiming for women's voting rights. She lost her teaching job in 1913 when she was arrested and put in prison for three months after throwing stones at Dublin Castle. Whilst in jail she started a hunger strike but was released under the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge of Ill Health Act and was soon rearrested. Sheehy's father, David Sheehy, MP, remained loyal to the British Government throughout her numerous imprisonments, which caused a rift between him and his daughter. In 1916 Sheehy's husband Francis was shot dead without any apparent charge and Sheehy refused any kind of compensation. Soon after this she travelled to the United States to publicise the political situation in Ireland. She published "British Militarism as I have known it" which was banned in Britain until after the First World War. Apon her return to Britain she was once again imprisoned, this time in Holloway prison. After being released Sheehy supported the Republicans during the Irish Civil War. During the 1930s she was assistant editor of An Phoblacht, a Sinn Fein newspaper. Also during this period she was arrested once more for breaking the Northern Ireland Exclusion Order. See also: Suffragettes Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna
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