Maamtrasna Murders Ireland's Most Devastating Miscarriage of Justice

The Maamtrasna Murders Ireland's Most Devastating Miscarriage of JusticeOn the night of August 17, 1882, five members of the Joyce family were killed in their cottage above Lough Mask in the remote Gaeltacht community of Maamtrasna. What followed was not justice. It was the machinery of empire in full operation, manufactured witnesses, suppressed evidence, coerced confessions, and a packed jury of...