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Maolra Seoighe, the Glossary

Maolra Seoighe (English: Myles Joyce), was an Irish man who was wrongfully convicted and hanged on 15 December 1882.^[1]

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Executed people from County Galway
Irish people convicted of murder
People executed by Ireland by hanging
People who have received posthumous pardons
Recipients of Irish presidential pardons
Wrongful executions

BBC Radio Ulster

BBC Radio Ulster (BBC Raidió Uladh) is a Northern Irish national radio station owned and operated by BBC Northern Ireland, a division of the BBC.

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Birmingham Six

The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.

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Ciarán Ó Cofaigh

Ciarán Ó Cofaigh is an Irish film director and producer. Maolra Seoighe and Ciarán Ó Cofaigh are people from County Galway.

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Constitution of the Irish Free State

The Constitution of the Irish Free State (Bunreacht Shaorstát Éireann) was adopted by Act of Dáil Éireann sitting as a constituent assembly on 25 October 1922.

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County Galway

County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland.

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County Mayo

County Mayo is a county in Ireland.

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Crispin Blunt

Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reigate from 1997 to 2024.

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David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool, (born 15 March 1951) is a British-Irish politician, formerly a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat who has sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1997 when he was made a life peer.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (29 September 1928 – 14 February 2016), was an English politician and human rights campaigner.

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Galway

Galway (Gaillimh) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway.

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Government of the 32nd Dáil

There were two governments of the 32nd Dáil, which was elected at the general election held on 26 February 2016.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Guildford Four and Maguire Seven

The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were two groups of people, mostly Irish, who were wrongly convicted in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974, and the Woolwich pub bombing of 7 November 1974. Maolra Seoighe and Guildford Four and Maguire Seven are people wrongfully convicted of murder.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Irish Film and Television Network

The Irish Film and Television Network is a company that provides news and a directory service of information related to the Irish film industry.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer

John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, KG, KP, PC (27 October 1835 – 13 August 1910), known as Viscount Althorp from 1845 to 1857 (and also known as the "Red Earl" because of his distinctive long red beard), was a British Liberal Party politician under, and close friend of, prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.

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Land War

The Land War (Cogadh na Talún) was a period of agrarian agitation in rural Ireland (then wholly part of the United Kingdom) that began in 1879.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (colloquially known as the Lib Dems) are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988.

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List of miscarriage of justice cases

This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.

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Maumtrasna

Maumtrasna, historically Formnamore (Formna Mór, 'the great shoulder'), is the highest of the Partry Mountains in south County Mayo, Ireland, rising to above sea level.

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Māori people

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).

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Michael D. Higgins

Michael Daniel Higgins (Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, broadcaster and sociologist who has been serving as the ninth president of Ireland since 2011.

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Murders of Martin and John Lydon

The murders of John Lydon (died 24 April 1881) and his son Martin Lydon (died 21 May 1881) occurred in Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland during the Irish Land War. Maolra Seoighe and murders of Martin and John Lydon are people from County Galway.

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Pardon

A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction.

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Polynesians

Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean.

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President of Ireland

The president of Ireland (Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of Ireland and the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces.

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RTÉ

i (Radio Television of Ireland; RTÉ) is an Irish public service broadcaster.

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Solicitor

A solicitor is a legal practitioner who traditionally deals with most of the legal matters in some jurisdictions.

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Spencer family

The Spencer family is an aristocratic British family.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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The Mayo News

The Mayo News is a weekly local newspaper published in Westport in Ireland.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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Timothy Harrington

Timothy Charles Harrington (1851 – 12 March 1910) was an Irish journalist, barrister, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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William Marwood

William Marwood (1818 – 4 September 1883) was a British state hangman.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maolra_Seoighe

Also known as Maamtrasna murders, Maamtrasna trial, Maumtrasna murders, Miles Joyce, Murdair Mhám Trasna, Myles Joyce.

Maolra Seoighe, the Glossary

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See also

Executed people from County Galway

Irish people convicted of murder

People executed by Ireland by hanging

People who have received posthumous pardons

Recipients of Irish presidential pardons

Wrongful executions

References