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While the Irish leaders were locked up, a secret murder club had taken matters in hand in their own way, and ripened plots within a stone’s throw of the Castle.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “While the Irish leaders were locked up, a secret murder club had taken matters in hand in their own way, and ripened…”
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Morley comments on the emergence of a violent faction in Ireland during a time of political unrest.
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