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Who Killed Honor Bright?
0Hardcover, 226 pages
Published September 28th 2014 by Patricia Hughes
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Authorities in the new Irish Free State harassed and murdered Honor Bright before maligning her as a prostitute and acquitting her assassin. The newly founded Garda Siochana spread deceitful rumours and coerced witnesses to conceal Honor's true identity and the real reason for he death. False eviden......more
Authorities in the new Irish Free State harassed and murdered Honor Bright before maligning her as a prostitute and acquitting her assassin. The newly founded Garda Siochana spread deceitful rumours and coerced witnesses to conceal Honor's true identity and the real reason for he death. False evidence, perjury and the silencing of potential witnesses led to hug he public demonstrations, but newspapers were coerced into printing only authorised stories or else face the consequences from the Garda or Ministry of Justice. Find out why political support moved away from the Free State towards an independent Republic from 1926, and why so many were killed or fled Ireland in the process. Find out what part William Butler Yeats and his wife George played.(less)
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About the author(Patricia L. Hughes)
My dad, a Dubliner, was illegitimate and didn't know who his father was.
Suddenly I realised that he was the son of William Butler Yeats and started to find out about my grandmother, who was murdered when he was four.
One thing led to another, and now I've written several book......more
My dad, a Dubliner, was illegitimate and didn't know who his father was.
Suddenly I realised that he was the son of William Butler Yeats and started to find out about my grandmother, who was murdered when he was four.
One thing led to another, and now I've written several books and set up as a publisher. Just take a look at
to see what I mean.
My dad, a Dubliner, was illegitimate and didn't know who his father was.
Suddenly I realised that he was the son of William Butler Yeats and started to find out about my grandmother, who was murdered when he was four.
One thing led to another, and now I've written several books and set up as a publisher. Just take a look at
to see what I mean. (less)