Martin O'Halloran

Martin O'Halloran

Martin O'Halloran, member of County Galway Land League, fl. 1879-1881.

Biography

Secretary of the Kiltullagh Branch of the Irish Land League. Bound over to keep the peace for having made a seditious speech at Craughwell in the course of which he threatened to disarm the police, called upon herds to leave their employment and claimed that that landlords were “were shaking like bulrushes in a bog.” Imprisoned March 1881 under Forster’s Coercion Act. Loughrea area notorious for outrages and murder. Leading campainger, held a great deal of ‘sway’ in the area, eventually too much so for his fellows.

He was active at the time of the murders of James Connors (Kiltullagh), Peter Dempsey (Kiltullagh), and other assaults in the area.

See also

References

  • As The Centuries Passed: A History of Kiltullagh 1500–1900, edited Kieran Jordan, 2000
  • The District of Loughrea: Vol. I History 1791-1918. ISBN 0 9546567 0 9

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