Cordal’s John Twiss 1895 Hanging For BBC TV Documentary

Cordal’s John Twiss 1895 Hanging For BBC TV Documentary

An independent television production company, working on commission for the BBC has made contact through the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project website. The company, Chalkboard Television Production, is working on a series of documentaries for the BBC at present and a representative has expressed an interest in taking a closer look at the John Twiss…

They Hanged John Twiss – the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Collection

They Hanged John Twiss – the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Collection

The Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project contains many items of important, historical significance in its huge collection. Among these items are research notes on John Twiss of Ardmona, who was hanged in Cork County Jail on February 9th 1895 for the murder, on 21 April 1894, of James Donovan, a caretaker of an evicted farm…