Tag: Republic of Ireland

• Michael Manning – Last to hang in the Irish Republic.

  

  Michael Manning was the last prisoner executed in the Republic of Ireland, ending a centuries-old tradition of executions in the Emerald Isle and another tradition of their being performed almost entirely by British executioners. Michael Manning’s case was the last time a group of officials would assemble at Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison at 8am in the…

  CrimeScribe

  May 14, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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