Retracing the steps of feminist and republican hero Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington is retracing the footsteps in the US of her campaigning grandmother, who was widowed in the Easter Rising.

More than €24,000 has been crowd-sourced to make a documentary about Micheline as she follows part of Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington’s journey a century ago.

Hanna sailed to the US at the end of 1916, less than a year after her fellow feminist and pacifist husband Francis was shot illegally by a firing squad at a Dublin military barracks.