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Finding Mary: The Untold Story of an Inishowen Murder, 1844
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Series: Maynooth Studies in Local History
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ISBN10: 1801511748
ISBN13: 9781801511742
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 72
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781801511742
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 72
Language: English
During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse near Culdaff, Co. Donegal. There was no doubt locally about the perpetrator's identity, but there was insufficient evidence against Daniel McKeeny, and he was eventually transported for a separate offence of sheep-stealing. Based on original research, this book reconstructs the world of a north Donegal village on the eve of the Great Famine to explore the approaches to justice taken by the local community and agents of the state, and examines the survival of the murder in local folklore to reflect on memory, remembrance and whose stories get to be told.
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