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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER XVI
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18,370) as Michael Healy.
While these pages are in the printer's hands the London papers chronicle (May 25, 1888) the arrest of a person described to me as this magistrate's brother, Jeremiah Healy, on a charge of robbing and setting fire to the Protestant church at Killarney! [6] Mr.Colomb sends me, June 30, the following interesting note:--The letter of which I gave you a copy was produced in evidence at Kerry Summer Assizes, 1867.

J.D.Sheehan, Esq., M.P., is the same man who was arrested on the 12th February 1867, and to whom the foregoing letter, ordering the rising in Killarney, is addressed.

He was kept in custody for some time, and eventually released, it is believed, on the understanding that he was to keep out of Ireland.

He came back in 1873 or 1874 and married the proprietress of a Hotel at Killarney.

His connection with the Glenbehy evictions is referred to on page 10, and in Note F of the Appendix I give an interesting account, furnished me by Mr.Colomb, of his activity in connection with the case of the Misses Curtin at Firies.
[7] In the time of Henry VIII.


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