“This factual book focuses on the death of Honor Bright in Ireland in 1925 and reveals how authorities in the Irish Free State harrassed and then murdered her. Afterwards she was maligned as a prostitute and her assassin acquitted. It portrays corruption and a lack of legal restraint at the heart of the new government.
The newly established Garda Sióchana was used to spread deceitful rumours and coerce witnesses in order to conceal the victim’s real identity and the reason for her death. False evidence, perjury and the forceful suppression of potential witnesses at a sham trial led to huge public demonstrations, but newspapers were coerced into printing only authorised stories or facing the consequences from the Garda and the Minister of Justice.
All persons involved in these events systematically destroyed evidence, or else hid it from prying eyes. Therefore the evidence provided in this book is almost all circumstantial. However the lives of William Butler (WB) Yeats, his wife George Yeats, Minister of Justice Kevin O’Higgins, Commissioner Eoin O’Duffy, Chief Superintendent David Neligan, Lily O’Neill or Honor Bright and Kevin O’Neill have never before been juxtaposed. Examined together they reveal a huge amount of new data that confirms the author's conclusions.
The author, Patricia Hughes, is the granddaughter of William Butler Yeats and Lily O'Neill / Honor Bright. Her father, Kevin Barry O'Neill, was their illegitimate son.
The newly established Garda Sióchana was used to spread deceitful rumours and coerce witnesses in order to conceal the victim’s real identity and the reason for her death. False evidence, perjury and the forceful suppression of potential witnesses at a sham trial led to huge public demonstrations, but newspapers were coerced into printing only authorised stories or facing the consequences from the Garda and the Minister of Justice.
All persons involved in these events systematically destroyed evidence, or else hid it from prying eyes. Therefore the evidence provided in this book is almost all circumstantial. However the lives of William Butler (WB) Yeats, his wife George Yeats, Minister of Justice Kevin O’Higgins, Commissioner Eoin O’Duffy, Chief Superintendent David Neligan, Lily O’Neill or Honor Bright and Kevin O’Neill have never before been juxtaposed. Examined together they reveal a huge amount of new data that confirms the author's conclusions.
The author, Patricia Hughes, is the granddaughter of William Butler Yeats and Lily O'Neill / Honor Bright. Her father, Kevin Barry O'Neill, was their illegitimate son.
