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Kelleher, Margaret. The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland . Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2018.

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  • In The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Like and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Irish Scholar Margaret Kelleher returns to the case of the murder of five members of the Joyce household who lived in the townland of Maamtrasna, County Galway, in Ireland, and the subsequent trials, executions and life imprisonments

  • Kelleher demonstrates that the significance of the Maamtrasna narrative, at once historical and contemporary, provides a vivid snapshot of a place and time in which the complex social dynamics within processes of cultural change are visible

  • In an attempt to understand what happened at Maamtransna that year, Chapter 2 is devoted to reexamining the history of the linguistic change that occurred in nineteenth-century Ireland

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In The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Like and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Irish Scholar Margaret Kelleher returns to the case of the murder of five members of the Joyce household who lived in the townland of Maamtrasna, County Galway, in Ireland, and the subsequent trials, executions and life imprisonments. Kelleher demonstrates that the significance of the Maamtrasna narrative, at once historical and contemporary, provides a vivid snapshot of a place and time in which the complex social dynamics within processes of cultural change are visible.

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