About the Author

Leah Levenson was an independent scholar. She is the author of With Wooden Sword: A Portrait of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Militant Pacifist and The Four Seasons of Mary Lavin.

Jerry H. Natterstad is the author of Francis Stuart and T. S. Eliot: A Study of Religion in His Early Poetry.

Reviews

A beautifully produced book, which is lucidly written and generously illustrated. . . . With this biography, Sheehy-Skeffington is assured of her rightful claim to posterity.-- "Irish Literary Supplement"

A remarkable woman and a figure of considerable importance in the cause of Irish Nationalism.-- "New York Times Book Review"

A revelatory resurrection. . . . An excellent biography of an exceptional, determined woman. Sheehy-Skeffington (1877-1946) disavowed her church--no light matter in the Ireland of her time--was considered a leftist, waged unceasing battles for women's rights and for peaceful political solutions to her country.-- "Publishers Weekly"

A well-written, carefully documented study. . . . Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington was a major figure in Ireland during a turbulent period, and this study helps clarify our picture of her and place her feminism within the context of other Irish reform efforts.-- "American Historical Review"

The authors have resurrected a person of great significance and stamina, whose contributions to the destiny of women in her time, and to Irish politics as a whole, surely cannot be overstated.-- "SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society"

Johanna Mary (Hanna) Sheehy (1877-1946) was the daughter of a well-to-do Irish family who were prominent in Catholic, nationalist, and intellectual circles in late 19th-century Dublin. She became an advocate of women's suffrage and, eventually, of all feminist ideas, and opposed militant nationalism with pacifism and narrow, sectarian Catholicism with agnosticism and internationalism. She was supported and abetted by her husband, Francis Skeffington, until he was executed by British troops in a strange and disturbing incident of the 1916 rebellion. Hanna continued her activism for 30 years longer. This detailed, albeit somewhat plodding, biography is recommended for extensive collections of women's studies and Irish history. John Moran, SUNY Coll. at Fredonia Lib.

A beautifully produced book, which is lucidly written and generously illustrated. . . . With this biography, Sheehy-Skeffington is assured of her rightful claim to posterity.-- "Irish Literary Supplement"
A remarkable woman and a figure of considerable importance in the cause of Irish Nationalism.-- "New York Times Book Review"
A revelatory resurrection. . . . An excellent biography of an exceptional, determined woman. Sheehy-Skeffington (1877-1946) disavowed her church--no light matter in the Ireland of her time--was considered a leftist, waged unceasing battles for women's rights and for peaceful political solutions to her country.-- "Publishers Weekly"
A well-written, carefully documented study. . . . Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington was a major figure in Ireland during a turbulent period, and this study helps clarify our picture of her and place her feminism within the context of other Irish reform efforts.-- "American Historical Review"
The authors have resurrected a person of great significance and stamina, whose contributions to the destiny of women in her time, and to Irish politics as a whole, surely cannot be overstated.-- "SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society"