Fergus O'Rourke
"F?achad?ir" <F?ach@d.?ir>wrote in message news:g5vmau096lbqn4s7uub725qboce7fi9kja@4ax.com...

Scr?obh David Flood :

[Treason]

But was it ever so used in the 1800s ?

David Flood
As far as I can recall offhand, there were a number of executions of

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Irish

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revolutionaries during the rebellions in the mid-1800's, and then of

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course

David Flood
there was the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, where the senior Irish

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officers

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were swiftly executed (before English Liberal and international outrage

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put

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an end to further progression through the rebel ranks - too late,

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though).

Not all rebels were executed for treason. Sometimes, the charge was simple murder.

And then again, the outrage didn't extend to Roger Casement, executed well after the initial fevered kneejerk executions.

David Flood
I think Parnell and the other Irish Parliamentary Party leaders were imprisoned under something like it (in efforts to destroy constitutional Irish Nationalism) in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

I doubt the charges against Parnell were that serious. There's quite a bit of ground between treason or sedition and "something like it".

FWIW, the last person executed for treason by the British was an Irishman, William Joyce, aka Lord Haw Haw.

Fergus O'Rourke
You are both missing (evading ?) the point.

David Flood suggested that insulting the British monarch was a dangerous thing in 19th century Ireland.

But *was* it ?