Hanging Crimes: When Ireland Used the Gallows - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856354628 ISBN 13: 9781856354622

Verlag: Mercier Press, 2005

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Reseña del editor:

This book brings us closer to the scaffold than any other publication about the nineteenth century. The story of each event is set in the context of the time so that the reader gets a good understanding and feel for the locality where the event happened. In all of these stories the event of murder or rape shook the entire communities. In many cases people turned against each other and were willing to give evidence against friends, kin and neighbours which often sent them to the scaffold. We see how the rule of law worked for the ordinary people; we discover the rape or murder, then the courtroom scenes and finally the result and dispensation of justice. Not all hangings were efficient or glorious but a further surprise is that not all communities were shocked by hanging. Some regarded the event as a day of celebration.

Biografía del autor:

Frank Sweeney was born in 1941 and has spent much of his life as a primary and secondary teacher in Dublin. A BA graduate of UCD, and MA graduate of NUI Maynooth, he is now completing his PhD. His first book, The Murder of Connell Boyle, was published by Four Courts Press in 2002, and is now on the compulsory reading list for students at NUI Maynooth.

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• Verlag: Mercier Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1856354628
• ISBN 13: 9781856354622
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
• Herausgeber: Sweeney Frank