Biography

Secretary of the Kiltullagh Branch of the Irish Land League. Bound over to keep the peace for having made a seditious speech at Craughwell

Craughwell

Craughwell is a village and townland in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. The name is also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil, though often anglicised as Craughwell and Crockwell...

 in the course of which he threatened to disarm the police, called upon herds to leave their employment and claimed that that landlords were “were shaking like bulrushes in a bog.” Imprisoned March 1881 under Forster’s Coercion Act

Coercion Act

The Coercion Acts, formally Protection of Person and Property Acts were Acts of Parliament to respond with force to popular discontent and disorder.-London:...

. Loughrea

Loughrea

Loughrea is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The town lies north of a range of wooded hills, the Slieve Aughty Mountains.The town expanded in recent years as it increasingly becomes a commuter town for the city of Galway.- Name :...

 area notorious for outrages and murder. Leading campainger, held a great deal of ‘sway’ in the area, eventually too much so for his fellows.

He was active at the time of the murders of James Connors (Kiltullagh)

James Connors (Kiltullagh)

James Connors , Irish tenant, murdered May 1881.Connors was a tenant at Forgehill, Toolooban, on the estate of Denis St George Daly, 2nd Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal . The farm consisted of fourteen acres....

, Peter Dempsey (Kiltullagh)

Peter Dempsey (Kiltullagh)

Peter Dempsey was a tenant farmer who was murdered during the Irish Land War in 28 May, 1881. He was shot to death while walking to Mass with his two daughters across a field mass path....

, and other assaults in the area.

See also

• Matthew Harris (Irish politician)
• Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant)
• Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde
  Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde
  Hubert George de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde , was an Anglo-Irish ascendancy nobleman and politician....