Guest Blog: Playwright Lizzie Nunnery On TO HAVE TO SHOOT IRISHMENSeptember 10, 2018In January 1917, four months after the murder of her husband, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington smuggled herself in to America with her eight-year-old son, Owen. As she'd previously been imprisoned for smashing the windows of Dublin Castle in suffragist protest, the British government wouldn't give her a passport.