Harry Gleeson’s own fiddle is played at funeral 83 years after he was hanged for murder he didn’t commit
Harry Gleeson
A man who was framed and hanged for a murder he did not commit was finally given a decent funeral yesterday, 83 years after he was buried in an unmarked grave in Mountjoy Prison.
The condemned farm manager was honoured at his belated funeral mass in Holycross Abbey in Tipperary, with music played on the fiddle he himself owned, before his remains – recently identified from his unmarked grave in Mountjoy Prison – were given a proper burial.
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