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With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 1993. First paperback edition, ( LATER printing) - Originally published in 1992 in hardcover.
“This is a wonderful book, full of honour, contrast and explanation … driven with translucent compassion … The author has done something more than resurrect the ghosts of the misjudged. He has projected lantern slides of a past culture, the cottage poor of the west of Ireland”.
– Frank Delaney, The Sunday Times.
Edgewear- light in the main - and dustmarking to the page block ends, but binding tight
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Maamtrasna murders
A harrowing account of poverty in postfamine rural ireland. A miscarriage of justice visited on people subjected to a judicial system not fit for purpose. It is a meticulously researched and well written account that stays with you for a long time afterwards.
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