Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

Johanna Mary (Hanna) Sheehy-Skeffington, (née Johanna Mary Sheehy) (24 May 1877 - 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband and Margaret Cousins and James Cousins she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights. She was later a founding member of the Irish Women's Workers' Union.