Skeffington’s Widow Treated as an Alien
SENTENCED TO A MONTH BY NORTH IRELAND AUTHORITIES. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Jan. 24. Mrs Sheehy-Skeffington, who was arrested near Newry when about to attend a meeting in connection with political prisoners, has been sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for entering Armagh in contravention of an exclusion order against her. She said she would be ashamed of the Irish race and her murdered husband if slio admitted that she was an alien in her own country. The partition of Ireland would yet be “as dead as Queen Anne.”
Mrs Shecby Skeffington, whose busband was shpt by soldiers in a street during the Irish Rebellion, was forbidden to enter Northern Ireland.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7065, 26 January 1933, Page 7
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