Tag: Murder
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Biddy’s – The Confessional Seal
A Priestly Predicament There have been volumes upon volumes written about the terrible events that blighted and tore apart Northern Ireland in the thirty years, from 1965 until the ‘Good Friday Agreement’. There is hardly a family in the Province that did not suffer in some way from the terrors, pain, heartache and devastation of […]
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An Interesting Trial
This is the story of an extraordinary trial that took place in Ireland just before the turn of the 20th Century and was revealed to me through the records of a provincial newspaper, printed in 1899. I think for many of my readers this will be their first introduction to the story. The case in […]
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Rat Poison
An Odd Case He had arrived at the spot where the narrow country lane forked, with one lane taking the traveller over by the edge of the old granite quarry and the other lane taking you past the ‘Fairy Tree’. ‘Banjo’ decided that he should rest for a moment, for the late summer sun was […]
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Black and Tans
Churchill’s Devils Posing for his portrait, to be sent home to show his family their ‘Hero’ Son….. What Irishman, woman or child shall we shoot dead, maim, or injure this day whether innocent of guilty? What town, village or farm shall we loot and bun to the ground? What fun shall we have…. We are […]
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