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Thread #166698 Message #4011039
Posted By: Jim Carroll
29-Sep-19 - 09:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: relocation of Franco's remains
Subject: RE: BS: relocation of Franco's remains
Whenever I think about burying history's monsters I always remember Tom Munnelly's story of Lord Leitrim - arguably the worst English Landlord in Ireland
Leitrim (Clements) was notorious for his evictions just after the Famine and was accused by locals and a priest of resoring the medeaval right of Droit du seigneur (first-bit of the cherry right of 'breaking in' the bride when two of his tenants got married)
Local tenants ambushed him but failed to shoot him, so they beat him to death, drowning him in a pool of water to make sure
He was interred in Dublin's St Michan's Church, near Smithfield
To went to hear two elderly Donegal fiddle players performing at the Tradition Club and found himself walling behind them on the way home
As they passed St Michans, they nipped into the church ans shortly after, cae out