Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Feiner - Her Political Writings

A biography of 20th century Irish feminist Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. This book looks at Skeffington's women's suffrage years, anti-war campaigns, prison experiences, the impact of the brutal killing of her husband, meetings with Prime Minister Asquith and President Wilson, the bitter 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.