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Episode 3 - Sins of the Brother

A second Walsh son, a 15-year-old boy, is arrested after a constable is shot and killed. Was it revenge? Or are authorities out to get the family?

April 1881. The west of Ireland is steeped in poverty and caught in the middle of a Land War. Local herds, father and son John and Martin Lydon, are dragged from their beds in Letterfrack, Co Galway, beaten and shot. John dies immediately, but Martin survives long enough to identify one of his assailants, Patrick Walsh, later convicted and hanged. But is all as it seems?
At a time when all of Ireland is under British Rule and Westminster is keen to quash the resistance of the Land League agitators, is this a case of the hanging of an innocent man as a warning to others, or are secret societies living by their own set of rules?

Justice James Lawson – Caolan Byrne
Solicitor General – Benny Redmond
Michael Walsh – Joshua Duffy
Honor Walsh – Maggie Cronin
Constable – Brian Tynan

Other parts played by the series cast.

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  • Sat 5 Oct 2024 13:05
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