Hanna Sheehy Skeffington

At Clarebeg they began holding a literary salon for Irish writers and intellectuals. Their guests included Irish writer Padraic Colum , his wife Mary Gunning Maguire (later an eminent literary critic), poet and novelist James Stephens

In her later years MG confirmed her friendships with a number of politically-involved women such as Charlotte Despard (with whom she shared a house for more than a decade), Constance Markiewicz , and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

EM 's relationship with Emma Goldman (whom she met during the 1930s and corresponded with for years) was important to both women, but difficult and often strained. Mannin dedicated Women and the Revolution (1938) to...

In the long, agonising, and ultimately successful struggle for independence MG was again strenuously active in Ireland. She supported political prisoners and those condemned to execution, and worked with Charlotte Despard for the Irish White Cross

Constance, Countess Markievicz, joined the Irish Women's Franchise League (IWFL ), founded in 1908 by her feminist, nationalist colleague, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington .

It was among her own boys' group that CCM first began to go by the title of Madame rather than Countess. Anne Haverty explains: In eschewing the Mrs of English usage, certain women showed...

MG occasionally contributed to the Workers' Republic (1898-1916), founded by James Connolly , with whom she wrote and distributed a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property, 1897. She also...

CD and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington went to Russia with a delegation from the Friends of Soviet Russia , and visited Moscow and Leningrad.