'It is not clean work to take away my lone defenceless wife': The killing of Bridget Noble
As she was being taken by IRA volunteers on a donkey and cart along a boreen towards the place of execution, Bridget Noble was in great distress and cried out for someone to save her. It was dark, early on a morning in March 1921, when people in a remote area of west Corkâs Beara Peninsula heard the anguished cries of the terrified woman who was facing death as an informer. This harrowing account emerged as I interviewed Beara people for a book about Bridget Noble, who was abducted and ...
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