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Sat 02 Feb 2010Captain Rock and a hard place
Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824, by James S Donnelly Jnr, The Collins Press, 509pp. €24.95
Co Tipperary, a group of about 17 men surrounded the thatched house of a well-to-do farmer, Edmund Shea. They demanded that he hand over arms they believed he had in the house. When Shea refused or resisted, the attackers set fire to the house. Inside were seven members of the Shea family – five of them children – six male labourers and three female servants. All 16 were burned alive.
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