The Maamtrasna Murders: Panel including Colm Toibin and other Distinguished Panelists
Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York CityIn 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,…