The Hanging of Kearneys | A Miscarriage of Justice? | Dublin in 1816 | Ireland

In the early 1800s the peace of Glenasmole Valley was forever broken by the disappearance of a despised land steward who worked on a nearby estate belonging to the powerful Shaw family. One evening John Kinlan walked out into the darkness a mountain laneway and seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. His disappearance led to the arrest of Peter Kearney and his four sons. The body of Kinlan would never be found but despite this the authorities and local landlords contrived to exact a terrible revenge on a rebellious mountain family that would see their lives extinguished by the hangman's rope on the bank of The River Dodder.

This is the story of the hanging of the Kearneys of Piperstown, a family who rebelled with the United Irishmen and gave sanctuary to Robert Emmet, the powerful land owning families who sought to make an brutal example of them and a hated magistrate and landlord who himself was destined to meet a brutal end.

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The Execution of Kevin Barry | A Young Irish Rebel | Dublin, Ireland in 1920

In 1920 as Ireland fought a War of Independence to break free from the grasp of The British Empire a young Volunteer by the name of Kevin Barry was captured on the streets of Dublin and then executed by the British authorities. Kevin Barry's death shocked the nation and became one of the most poignant stories of the revolutionary period.

This is the story of his life from his birth in Dublin, his early years in Carlow, his college life and volunteer training and his sad death aged 18 in November 1920.

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