exercising throughout the period of crisis. Aftermath Major Sir Francis Vane, who had sought to have Bowen-Colthurst brought to justice, was dishonourably discharged from the British Army in late May,1916, owing to an adverse report about him filed by British high commander Sir John Maxwell about his actions in the Skeffington murder case. He went on to be involved with the Boy Scouts, then retired from public life in 1927 and died in 1934. Captain Bowen-Colthurst spent 19 months at Broadmoor Hospital but he did not change his views on how to deal with suspected rebels. He was released under medical supervision on 26 January 1918 and provided with a military pension. Bowen-Colthurst emigrated in April 1919 to the Canadian province of British Columbia, where he lived for the rest of his life and died in 1965. His obituary did not mention his role in the Easter rising. His remains were buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Penticton, British Columbia. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was offered financial compensation by the British government in 1916, but she refused it because it came on the condition that she cease to speak and write about the murder. She became increasingly nationalist-minded, and supported the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War. She refused to send her son Owen to any school with a pro-Treaty ethos, and therefore opted to place him in the secular Sandford Park School when it was founded in 1922. Her sister's son Conor Cruise O'Brien was also placed there. Hanna died in 1946. Owen Sheehy-Skeffington became a lecturer in French at Trinity College, and, beginning in 1954, an Irish Senator. He died in 1970. See also List of peace activists Works Books A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question. Privately printed, Dublin 1901 (published with The Day of the Rabblement by James Joyce.) Michael Davitt, revolutionary, agitator and labour leader, 1908 (accessible from Internet Archive). In Dark and Evil Days, Dublin : J. Duffy, 1916. Personal papers The personal papers of Francis Sheehy Skeffington and his wife Hanna were donated to the National Library of Ireland. Details of the papers can be accessed online. References External links Biography 1878 births 1916 deaths Alumni of University College Dublin Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin) World War I crimes by the British Empire and Commonwealth Irish pacifists Irish suffragists Irish anti–World War I activists Irish atheists People from County