File:FRENCH(1891) p077 MONUMENT TO JUDGE LYNCH.jpg
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Plaque of James Lynch Fitzstephen, elected mayor of Galway in A.D. 1493, who condemned and executed his own guilty son, Walter, on this spot. He was one son who was not spared. | ||||||
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Plaque of James Lynch Fitzstephen, elected mayor of Galway in A.D. 1493, who condemned and executed his own guilty son, Walter, on this spot. He was one son who was not spared. |
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Lynch was the infamous cold-hearted mayor/judge of Galway in Ireland. The story goes that Lynch's son Walter was jealous of his father's Spanish houseguest, whom he believed was wooing his lady. In a fit of rage, he killed the Spaniard, but sobered up and confessed his crime. The people of Galway, for some reason, were on Walter's side and pleaded mercy on his behalf, but his ruthless father found him guilty and hung him out the window of their home. The house is gone, but the window is still there, marked with a plaque. |
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Date |
1891 date QS:P571,+1891-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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British Library HMNTS 10390.g.19. |
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Image extracted from page 077 of Our Boys in Ireland, by FRENCH, Henry Willard. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr. Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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