Members of Castleisland District Heritage (CDH) were delighted to welcome prolific Australian novelist, Tom Keneally to Castleisland at the weekend. Mr. Keneally, whose 1982 written book Schindler’s Ark became the 1993 made and multi Academy Award winning film Schindler’s List, was accompanied by his wife Judy and North Cork relations, Catherine Culloty from Newmarket and…
Murder Mystery and My Family, the BBC1 documentary series which revisits criminal cases to highlight historical wrongs, has rewritten Irish history for the second time in a matter of a few years. In March 2018, the 1895 case of the ill-fated John Twiss of Castleisland featured in series one of the programme, and Crown Court…
There is a great sense of irony in the modern day treatment of a near century and a half old Kerry murder case and its unfortunate victims. A British institution, the BBC, is now looking into the possibility / probability of a miscarriage of justice in the infamous case of Poff and Barrett. The BBC…
A long stride in the on-going application for a Presidential Pardon of John Twiss was taken in Dublin last week when documentation about the case was formally handed to Niall Colgan at the Department of Justice & Equality in St Stephen’s Green. Systematic Procedure Discussed Making the journey to Dublin by train was Johnnie Roche,…
A email from Lorna Hartnett from Chalkboard TV – the company which made the documentary on the hanging of John Twiss – confirms that the series, Murder, Mystery and My Family is now being run on BBC One. Ms. Hartnett, who discovered the ‘John Twiss story’ on the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project almost 12…
