William Murphy (1834–1872) was an Irish anti-Catholic activist and public lecturer.[1] Murphy was born at Castletown-Conyers, County Limerick, on 1 August 1834; and was killed at Whitehaven, in 1872, by a group of angry Irish miners.[1]
References
Sources
- Geoghegan, Patrick M. (2009). "Murphy, William". Dictionary of Irish Biography (online ed.). Cambridge University Press; Royal Irish Academy.
Further reading
- Ashbee, Henry Spencer [Pisanus Fraxi] (1879). Centuria Librorum Absconditorum. London: privately printed. pp. 92, 212.
External links
- Wohl, Anthony S. (4 April 2002). "The Murphy Riots". The Victorian Web.
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