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Author | : Tim Carey |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-09-15 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1848898185 |
Between 1923 and 1954 the Irish state executed twenty-nine people convicted of murder. Almost all executions were carried out in the hanghouse of Mountjoy Prison by members of the Pierrepoint family. The often shocking and fascinating stories of these men and one woman have been largely forgotten. Their remains lie behind prison walls as strange testaments to an abandoned form of punishment. Among those buried in Mountjoy are Bernard Kirwan, convicted of killing his brother, though a body was never conclusively identified. Kirwan's presence in Mountjoy Prison and his execution inspired Brendan Behan's play 'The Quare Fellow'. Also there lie Henry McCabe, convicted of killing six people in a house in Malahide, and Annie Walsh, convicted of murdering her husband for compensation money. Few had ever been convicted of a crime before each was convicted of the most serious of all. The voices of some seem to whisper from the unmarked graves that it was not they who carried out the crime as doubts remain about the safety of some of the convictions. 'Hanged for Murder' tells their stories, some in graphic detail, for the first time.
Author | : Síle de Cléir |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350020605 |
For much of the 20th century, Catholics in Ireland spent significant amounts of time engaged in religious activities. This book documents their experience in Limerick city between the 1920s and 1960s, exploring the connections between that experience and the wider culture of an expanding and modernising urban environment. Síle de Cléir discusses topics including ritual activities in many contexts: the church, the home, the school, the neighbourhood and the workplace. The supernatural belief underpinning these activities is also important, along with creative forms of resistance to the high levels of social control exercised by the clergy in this environment. De Cléir uses a combination of in-depth interviews and historical ethnographic sources to reconstruct the day-to-day religious experience of Limerick city people during the period studied. This material is enriched by ideas drawn from anthropological studies of religion, while perspectives from both history and ethnology also help to contextualise the discussion. With its unique focus on everyday experience, and combination of a traditional worldview with the modernising city of Limerick – all set against the backdrop of a newly-independent Ireland - Popular Catholicism in 20th-century Ireland presents a fascinating new perspective on 20th-century Irish social and religious history.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Bills, Legislative |
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Author | : Dermot Walsh |
Publisher | : Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : 9781856356275 |
This book takes a look at young Michael Manning and the events that lead to the death of an elderly woman and Manning's hanging.
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Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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Total Pages | : 946 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Equity |
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Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 1050 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Henry Parr Maskell |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Bars (Drinking establishments) |
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Author | : Walter Bernard Smith |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Staffordshire |
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Author | : Ray Shill |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1445632438 |
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Wyrley & Essington Canal has changed and developed over the last century.