Public Lecture: Transatlantic Subversive? Irish Suffragist and Nationalist Hanna Sheehy Skeffington’s American Lecture Tours, 1917-21
Presented by Professor Elizabeth McKillen as part of the History Department Symposium Series. For much of her early life, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington devoted herself primarily to the women’s suffrage cause in Ireland. Yet when her pacifist husband, Frank Sheehy Skeffington, was brutally executed without trial by British troops during the Irish Easter Rebellion, Hanna travelled […]
