Life
1851-1910; Irish politician, founded Kerry Sentinel, 1877; imprisoned; initiated with William O’Brien and John Dillon ‘Plan of Campaign’, which he published in United Ireland, 23 Oct. 1866; MP for Co. Westmeath, 1883-85; Irish bar, 1877, wrote a pamphlet exposing the injustice of the Joyce trials arising from the Maamtrasna murders, 1882; acted as counsel for Parnell in the Parnell Commission and later declared for Parnell during Party Split; elected Lord Mayor of Dublin 1901-04 [err. 1902]; pelted by Unionist students from Trinity College [TCD], 17 March 1901; provided letter of reference for James Joyce to bank in Rome, 1906; d. at home, Harcourt St., 12 March 1910. ODNB DIB DIH FDA
Works
| The Maamtrasna Massacre: Impeachment of the Trials, with appendix containing Report of the Trials and Correspondence between Most Rev. McEvilly and the Lord Lieutenant (Dublin: Nation Office 1884), 46pp. CONTENTS: [1:] Introduction [iii]-viii. List of names (p.ix). [2:] The Maamtrasna Murders: The Approver Casey’s Revelations about the Crown Approvers [Chaps. I-VI], pp.1-18.. Appendix: Report of the Maamtrasna Trials (abridged from Freeman’s Journal), pp.1-46. The Maamtrasna Tragedy (FJ, 14-16 Nov. 1882), pp.1.-20. Trial of Patrick Casey, pp.20-29; Trial of Myles Joyce, p.29-35; [3:] The Archbishop of Tuam’s Letter [being] The Lord Lieutenant’s Reply to the Letter of the Archbishop of Tuam, [addressed to His Grace the Most Reverend John M'Evilly; signed R. G. C. Hamilton] p.36ff. [Available at Google Books - online; accessed 25.04.2024.] |
| [Para 2:] ‘[...] Acting on the information of two brothers named Anthony and John Joyce, the police arrested, on the 20th, ten men, all of whom resided at a considerable distance from the scene of the murder - some at a distance of seven miles. The story related by those two brothers, supported by the son of one of them, was of so extraordinary a character that no one but the Crown officials seemed to credit it, and the suspicion very generally prevailed that the brothers Joyce had themselves more to do with the murder than the men they accused.’ (p.iii; ... &c..) |
| [ See also under James Joyce and Lord Peter O’Brien (Chief Justice) elsewhere in RICORSO. ] |
Notes
Friends: Harrington was a personal friend of John Stanislaus Joyce, who secured from him references for his son James Joyce on applying for a post to a bank in Rome in June 1906 (see Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, 1959 & edns.)
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