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The Letterfrack Murders were solved in 1882. But a year later the case is back in court. With different defendants. What’s going on?

April 1881. The west of Ireland is steeped in poverty and caught in the middle of a Land War. Local herds, father and son John and Martin Lydon, are dragged from their beds in Letterfrack, Co Galway, beaten and shot. John dies immediately, but Martin survives long enough to identify one of his assailants, Patrick Walsh, later convicted and hanged. But is all as it seems?
At a time when all of Ireland is under British Rule and Westminster is keen to quash the resistance of the Land League agitators, is this a case of the hanging of an innocent man as a warning to others, or are secret societies living by their own set of rules?

James Mannion – Peter Heenan
James Gavin – Joshua Duffy
Martin Faherty – Eoin O Dubhgaill
Michael Davitt – Brian Tynan

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24 minutes

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Thu 17 Oct 2024 21:03

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  • Sat 12 Oct 2024 13:05
  • Thu 17 Oct 2024 21:03