Francis Sheehy Skeffington
Artist
Sarah Cecilia Harrison
(1863 - 1941)
Date1916
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions58.7 × 45.8 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by Mrs Sheehy-Skeffington, 1970.
Object number1315
DescriptionFrancis Sheey Skeffington was a socialist, pacifist and feminist. He played an important, if not indirect role, in the Lockout as a ‘stringer’ for British newspapers such as the Manchester Guardian and Daily Herald. A close friend of James Connolly he assiduously promoted the workers’ cause in a way that was not possible in Irish newspapers,controlled as many of them were by William Martin Murphy. Even the Irish Citizen, the female suffrage newspaper he co-edited with his wife Hanna, could not be explicitly pro-labour for fear it might lose some of its predominantly middle class subscribers.
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