Captain Moonlight – A Hero of the Land War of the Eighties is Dead

Captain Moonlight – A Hero of the Land War of the Eighties is Dead

Writing in the Kerry newspapers on this day, August 10th 1935 the ubiquitous, Church Street based, writer, TM Donovan laments the death, a few days earlier, of his friend and neighbour, Robert ‘Bob’ Finn. Unambiguous in his language against the landlord class and culture of the Land League era, Donovan traced the life of the…