In Ireland, during the Land War of 1879-1882, Galway was regarded as dangerously disturbed because of the large number of agrarian incidents reported. These included murders, the wounding of persons a
In 1881-82, during the Land War, two innocent men--Patrick Finnegan and Constable Michael Muldowney--were convicted of murder based on the perjured testimony of informers, and spent 20 years in jail.
At the height of Ireland's Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting and killing of a young man named Peter Doherty near Craughwell, Co. Galway. Intense police investigations discovere
