The Irish Assassins by Julie Kavanagh

Author:Julie Kavanagh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic

It was even said that the Crown would go through the form of trying Mullett in order to create the belief that he had not supplied the government with information, hoping, it was alleged, that a ruse of this kind might entice certain people back to Ireland who had fled in consequence of the supposed “Careyism” of Mullett.

From America, Egan publicly stated faith in his friend James Mullett—“a man of sound business principles and integrity of character”—and nothing in Justice O’Brien’s sentencing speech gave any hint that Mullett had informed. He had not been involved in the murders of Burke and Cavendish, as he was already in custody under suspicion of another crime, and yet, his ten-year jail term was tellingly light for someone who had not only been an Invincibles leader but had also planned the attack on juryman Denis Field.

Then came news that twenty-three-year-old Joseph Hanlon, who had been with Carey in Skin-the-Goat’s car, had been accepted as an informer. “How many have been refused is known only to the Crown,” Davitt wrote. “It is nevertheless astonishing that so many poor laboring men … should have refrained during the space of eight months from making any effort to obtain the enormous reward of £10,000.… Threatened with the consequences of others supposed revelations they turned to save themselves—Skin, honorably excepted.”

Not according to James Carey. In a letter he wrote from Kilmainham to Joe Brady’s parents, Carey claimed that their son was the only Invincible who had not “told all before I said one word.” He goes on to provide names, and Skin’s is among them. Tim Kelly is not included on the list, but Mallon revealed that the youth had asked to see him to find out whether making “a clean breast of it to the authorities” might save him from the rope. Mallon told him that he believed his end was inevitable and advised him instead to make a full confession to the prison priest.

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