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Excerpt from Famous Irish Trials When I accepted the invitation to write a book on famous Irish trials 1 did not quite realize the abundance of material available. I speedily discovered that there have been famous Irish trials enough to fill, not a book merely, but a book case full: when, em harrassed by the difficulty of selection, I consulted my friends I found, like the old donkey man in the fable, contradiction and confusion amongst my advisers. Murders. Counselled one, there is nothing the public so love to read as a good, savage, sensational murder. A murder trial is always the most popular item in the newspapers, that's why detective stories are attractive, they generally begin or end with a murder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.