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The Maamtrasna Murders: Panel including Colm Toibin and other Distinguished Panelists
The Maamtrasna Murders: Panel including Colm Toibin and other Distinguished Panelists
In 1882 the brutal murders of the Joyce family in Maamtrasna, western Ireland, were succeeded by a series of legal trials and executions, made especially infamous by the wrongful conviction and execution of Irish-speaker Myles Joyce. These events are the subject of a recent book by Professor Margaret Kelleher, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University: The Maamtrasna Murders: Language,…