Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish feminist
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Place of Birth: Kanturk, Munster, Ireland
About Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
- Johanna Mary "Hanna" Sheehy Skeffington (née Johanna Mary 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. Her sister Mary married the writer and politician Thomas Kettle.
- Another sister, Kathleen, married Frank Cruise O'Brien, and was the mother of Conor Cruise O'Brien.
- The fourth of the sisters, Margaret, married a solicitor, John Culhane, and later the poet Michael Casey.
- Their two brothers worked as lawyers.
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