Hanged... but he took 45 minutes to expire: Gruesome death of an innocent Cork Fenian
Executed for a murder he didn’t commit - and even that was botched - JIMMY COLLINS tells the story of ‘Manchester Martyr’ Michael O’Brien
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Executed for a murder he didn’t commit - and even that was botched - JIMMY COLLINS tells the story of ‘Manchester Martyr’ Michael O’Brien
John Hyland – ‘British Empire brought great benefit to Ireland’ (August 17) – in his eulogy to the British Empire, and the hubris in which he defended the virtues of it, I’m sure raised a few chuckles and frowns across the country.
Victor Blease, a highly innovative former chief of the Housing Executive (HE) and eldest son of notable trade union leader the late Lord Billy Blease, has died in the Ulster Hospital.
Claire Foy who played the Queen in The Crown has revealed how she found out two members of her family faced execution after a policeman was murdered in an infamous Irish republican attack in 19th century Manchester.
In an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Foy (pictured) learns her great-great-great-grandfather John Henry Martin and his brother William were arrested after the murder of a policeman in 1867.