Gallows Speeches from Eighteenth-Century Ireland

James Kelly (Four Courts Press) ISBN 1851826114 In editing sixty-two broadside gallows speeches from eighteenth century Ireland James Kelly finds himself in the company of another prolific commentator on eighteenth-century Ireland. According to the nineteenth-century antiquarian Thomas Crofton-Croker, Jonathan Swift collected and annotated printed dying speeches of Irish victims. The history of crime and punishment ... Read more

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