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Who Killed Honor Bright?

Who Killed Honor Bright?

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Series: William Butler Yeats and Honor Bright, Book 2

Political BiographiesBritish History

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ISBN10: 1687880921
ISBN13: 9781687880925
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 22 2019
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
William Butler Yeats had an extra-marital lover, Lily O'Neill or Honor Bright, from 1918 to 1925. Garda Superintendent Leopold Dillon murdered her on orders from Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. George, Yeats's wife, reported falsely that Lily was a Republican spy. O'Higgins wanted to restore credence in the Free State, which would otherwise have been reclaimed by the British due to maladministration. Afterwards a bogus trial was con- cocted outside the court circuit by Chief Superintendent David Ne- ligan, at which Lily was reinvented as a prostitute to conceal Yeats's affair and son and hide the involvement of Free State officials. On the strength of false evidence the jury unanimously acquitted the assassin after three minutes' deliberation.

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