Last Irish witch trial revisited
Eight Presbyterian women were jailed for a year and put in public stocks four times on market day.
In his upcoming book, Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland, 1586-1946, Andrew Sneddon — history lecturer at the University of Ulster — contends their alleged victim, 18-year-old Mary Dunbar, made the whole thing up: “My research is based on a wide variety of contemporary documentation, including witness statements, letters and eye-witness accounts.
