Irish Women's Franchise League

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins formed the Irish Women's Franchise League , a militant, non-partisan organisation which wanted women's suffrage included in the Home Rule Bill.

The Irish Women's Suffrage Federation was founded by Louie Bennett and Helen Chenevix to link smaller suffrage organisations operating across Ireland.

Irish Women's Franchise League members held a protest outside the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, where John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party were meeting.

John Redmond , leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party , told Irish Women's Franchise League members that he would not promote women's suffrage as it would give the clergy more power.

The Irish Citizen reported that thirteen Irish Women's Franchise League members were jailed in London for up to two months each between November 1910 and March 1912.

The Irish Citizen, a suffrage newspaper jointly edited by Francis Sheehy Skeffington and James Cousins , began weekly publication in London.

Eight Irish Women's Franchise League members, including Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins , were arrested for smashing windows in the General Post Office, Customs House, and Dublin Castle.

The Irish Women's Franchise League organised peaceful protests around Prime Minister Asquith 's visit to Dublin, but English suffragettes travelled to Dublin and demonstrated violently.

James Connolly spoke in favour of women's suffrage at an Irish Women's Franchise League weekly meeting.

The Irish Parliamentary (pro-Home-Rule) Party took an anti-suffrage position; while its members of parliament defeated suffrage amendments to the Home Rule Bill, the Irish Women's Franchise League held protest demonstrations during Home Rule rallies.

The Irish Women's Franchise League helped at the soup kitchens during a general strike and lockout; the relief effort brought together women's suffrage, nationalist, and labour organisations.

The Ulster Unionist Council led by Edward Carson announced that a provisional Ulster government would enfranchise women.

The Irish Women's Franchise League publicly disassociated itself from the Women's Social and Political Union .

The refusal by the Irish Women's Franchise League to support Home Rule without the enfranchisement of women led to an internal split: divisions between Irish suffragists and nationalists deepened.

The Irish Women's Franchise League , in the Irish Citizen, criticized the recently-formed Cumann na mBan for placing nationalism before women's suffrage.