Maamtrasna - The Murders And The Mystery

Local historian, Father Jarlath Waldron, has written an exhaustive account of the murders of the John Joyce family in the Maamtrasna Mountains in Galway in the summer of 1882. Although the murders gave every indication of being tribal, the British government used the massacre as evidence of agrarian violence during Ireland's Land War--violence that required the implementation of extreme legal remedies under the various coercion acts. Despite testimony from two members of the Joyce family, Crown Prosecutor George Bolton suppressed evidence that would have cleared Myles Joyce, who was executed for a crime he did not commit, as well as four men who spent twenty years in penal servitude. The failure of Gladstone's government to investigate this miscarriage of justice was one of the reasons it fell in 1886.

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