Early Life
Sheehy-Skeffington was brought up in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, was a pacifist and nationalist whose murder by Captain J.C. Bowen-Colthurst in 1916 during the week of the Easter Rising became a cause celebre. His mother, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, was a founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League. After her husband's murder she became increasingly nationalist, supporting the anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War.
He was educated in the United States, and in Dublin at Sandford Park School, a non-denominational school selected by his mother in the face of strong criticism. His cousin, the diplomat, writer and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien, was a pupil there at the same time.
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