Thom's Irish Who's Who/Sheehy-Skeffington, Mrs. Hanna

SHEEHY-SKEFFINGTON, Mrs. Hanna: member of Dublin City Council, M.A. (National University, Dublin): President Irish Women's Franchise League. Born Kanturk, Co. Cork; m. (1903) Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Pacifist, Editor of Irish Citizen; murdered by Capt. Bowen-Colthurst in 1916; actively associated with feminist and Irish Militant Suffrage Movement; twice imprisoned, in 1912 and 1913, for same; lectured in United States from 1916-1918 on British Militarism in Ireland: on return deported to Holloway by British Chief Secretary Short, hungerstruck and was subsequently released and allowed to return to Ireland; since then actively engaged in Sinn Fein propaganda; member of S.F. Standing Committee from 1916-1922: Director of S.F. organization from 1921-22: edited "Irish Citizen" from 1916 till its forced cessation owing to Military raids during Terror. Pubns.: British Militarism as I have known it; Sinn Fein and United States; Biography of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington; special Irish Correspondent to Irish World, New York. Res.: 7 Belgrave Road, Dublin.