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Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

1877–1946

Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupation
activist

Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington (née Sheehy; 24 May 1877 – 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Mountjoy Prison
    Dates unknown
  2. HM Prison Holloway
    Dates unknown

Biography

Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington (née Sheehy; 24 May 1877 – 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Margaret Cousins and James Cousins, she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights. She was later a founding member of the Irish Women Workers' Union. Her son Owen Sheehy-Skeffington became a politician and Irish senator.

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