Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was the most significant feminist in
twentieth-century Ireland - an activist, writer and polemicist of
the highest rank. An advocate of feminism, socialism, and
republicanism, her writings - published in Britain and America as
well as Ireland - transcended national boundaries. In these pages
we experience the excitement of the 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. Her organisational abilities were recognised
by the leaders of the Easter Rising, who agreed she would be the
sole female member of a civil provisional government, to be formed
if the Rising was a success.She remained an activist throughout her
life, an advocate for a Workers' Republic, serving a prison
sentence in Armagh jail in 1933, campaigning against the
Constitution in 1937 and standing for election to the Dail as an
independent feminist in 1943. Her political writings, including
book and theatre reviews, newspaper articles, reminiscences,
interviews, obituaries, and analysis of key events in the first
half of the twentieth century- authoritative, passionate and witty
- provide the reader with an indispensable source for understanding
the personalities and the issues behind the long march for women's
equality and national independence in Ireland.
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