Irish Women's Franchise League

Irish Women's Franchise League
Formation1908 (1908)
Founder
Dissolved1918 (1918)

The Irish Women's Franchise League was an organisation for women's suffrage which was set up in Dublin in November 1908. Its founder members included Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Margaret Cousins, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and James H. Cousins.[1] Thomas MacDonagh was a member.

Its paper was The Irish Citizen, which was published from 1912 to 1920. The paper was edited originally by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and James Cousins. One of its reporters throughout was Lillian Metge, who founded the Lisburn Suffrage Society and was its president and secretary at different times.[2]

  1. ^ The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish women's writing. Volume 5. Page 92
  2. ^ "'The brutes': Mrs Metge and the Lisburn Cathedral bomb, 1914". History Ireland. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2019.