Speech from the Dock. Delivered in June 1915, in the Dublin Police Court, where he was tried for speaking against conscription.

Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

Speech from the Dock. Delivered in June 1915, in the Dublin Police Court, where he was tried for speaking against conscription.

New York

Skegginton Memorial Committee

1917

Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was a journalist whose essay supporting “the full benefits of university life” for women as well as men was published in 1901 with his friend James Joyce’s early essay criticizing the Irish Literary Theatre. Skeffington, who fought for social reform and labor rights, also opposed Irish conscription during World War I, for which he was sentenced to six months in prison. As a pacifist during the Rising, he attempted to stop looting in the streets and was executed without trial by a British captain.