Finding Mary: An
Inishowen murder
22.09.25
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ANGELA Byrne’s new book,
'Finding Mary: The untold story of an Inishowen murder,
1844', is based on the murder of 14-year-old servant Mary
Doherty in a farmhouse near Culdaff, during a robbery on
10 March 1844. There was no doubt locally about the
perpetrator’s identity, but there was insufficient
evidence against Daniel McKeeny and he was never
convicted for this crime. |
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Based on original
research, this book reconstructs the world of a north
Donegal village on the eve of the Great Famine to
explore the approaches to justice taken by the local
community and agents of the state, and examines the
survival of the murder in local folklore to reflect on
memory, remembrance and whose stories get to be told. |
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