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Micheál Ó Seighin, not Willie Corduff

Published in 20th-century / Contemporary History, Issue 2 (March/April 2010), Letters, Letters, Volume 18

Sir,

—In his review of the TG4 series Rapairí (HI 18.1, Jan./Feb. 2010),John Gibney mistakenly refers to Willie Corduff instead of Micheál ÓSeighin as a contributor to the first programme in the series. Both menare well-known members of the Rossport 5. As someone who has followedthe course of their campaign over a number of years, it would seem tome that it is Ó Seighin, Corduff and their supporters who areattempting to uphold the law against the anti-democratic manoeuvring ofvested interests intent on circumventing it.

—Yours etc.,
GREGORY DALY
Ballinafad, Co. Sligo

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1968 In what became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Enoch Powell MP strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK, and the then proposed Race Relations Act.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Groody, Limerick city, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland. The last judicial execution in Northern Ireland took place seven years later, in December 1961, when Robert McGladdery (26) from Newry was hanged for the murder of a local woman.
1912 Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (65), author, notably of Dracula (1897), died.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Limerick, was hanged in Mountjoy prison for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last man to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland.

Micheál Ó Seighin, not Willie Corduff

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