Women's Suffrage

Suffragette Sheehy Skeffington Honored

By Dave Lewis, Assistant Editor
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2018/06/dave-lewis/">Dave Lewis</a>, Assistant Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/september-october-2018/">September / October 2018</a> 1 Comment

On Thursday, June 13, 1912, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and a group of suffragettes, smashed windows in Dublin Castle to highlight the “woman’s right to vote” cause. It was an offense for which she would spent a month in prison. 106 years later to the day, near to the windows that were smashed, President Michael D. Higgins unveiled a plaque honoring Sheehy Skeffington’s efforts … [Read more...] about Suffragette Sheehy Skeffington Honored

September 17, 1903

On this day in 1903, Irish American writer Frank O’Connor was born in Cork, Ireland. In 1918, O’Connor joined the Irish Republican Army and helped fight in the war for independence. However, he opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was imprisoned for being one of the Anti-Treaty combatants. After his release, O’Connor served briefly as a managing director at Dublin’s Abbey Theater, but then accepted a teaching position in the U.S. Many of O’Connor’s short stories were published in The New Yorker, for which he received much acclaim. His memoir, An Only Child, was also very successful.

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