The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life, and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Margaret Kelleher

The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life, and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Margaret Kelleher

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
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The Maamtrasna Murders of 1882—in which three men who spoke only Irish were wrongfully sentenced to death after a trial conducted fully in English—stand as one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in Irish history. In this book, Margaret Kellehe...

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