Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
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Francis Joseph Christopher Sheehy-Skeffington was an Irish writer and radical activist well known in Dublin in the decade before the 1916 Easter Rising. Through his speeches and freelance journalism,
The shop at Kelly's Corner, as it appears today
The grave of Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Francis Sheehy Skeffington, depicted on street art in Dublin, in the neighborhood of Rathmines where he lived and where he was killed.
Hanna and Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, in 1916.
Easter Rising
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The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Irela
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
…of Esperanto books in his library when he died. This enthusiasm was not unusual at the time in leftist circles, and several prominent leaders of the 1916 Easter rising, including James Connolly, were also Esperantists. In 1896 (aged 17), he enrolled in University College, then run by the Jesuits and located on St…
O'Connell Street, Dublin, after the Rising. The GPO is at left, and Nelson's Pillar at right.
Members of the Irish Citizen Army outside Liberty Hall, under the slogan "We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland"
The General Post Office in Dublin – the rebel headquarters
Positions of rebel and British forces in central Dublin