suffragette and Sinn Féiner : her memoirs and political writings
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ward, Margaret > (ed.)
- Creator
- Skeffington Micheline Sheehy > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 SHE 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, suffragettes, vredesbeweging, Ierland, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- A biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), Irish feminist. This book looks at Skeffington's women's suffrage years, anti-war campaigns, prison experiences, the impact of the killing of her husband, meetings with Prime Minister Asquith and President Wilson, the years of civil war, impressions of Bolshevik Russia, inter-war Europe, her friendship with Constance Markievicz, debates with Sean O'Casey, and her involvement in feminist campaigns against the exclusion of women from public life during the 1930s and 1940s.