Joe Brady, Michael Fagan, Thomas Caffrey, Dan…

June 1883 CE

Joe Brady, Michael Fagan, Thomas Caffrey, Dan Curley and Tim Kelly are convicted in the trial of the Phoenix park murders and are hanged by William Marwood in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin between May 14 and June 4, 1883.

Others are sentenced to serve long prison terms.

The hunt for the perpetrators was led by Superintendent John Mallon, a Catholic who comes from Armagh.

Mallon had a pretty shrewd idea of who is involved, suspecting a number of former Fenian activists.

A large number of suspects had been arrested and kept in prison by claiming they were connected with other crimes.

By playing off one suspect against another, Mallon had gotten several of them to reveal what they knew.

The Invincibles' leaders James Carey, Michael Kavanagh and Joe Hanlon had agreed to testify against the others.

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