Uproar as book on wrongly hanged man Harry Gleeson ‘names names’

A new book on recently pardoned Harry Gleeson, who was hanged for a murder he didn’t commit, is causing major controversy because it names the fathers of the children of the murder victim.

The victim had six surviving children, born to at least five different men. Most — if not all — of the men were married, and a number of their children through marriage still live locally and are only now learning that their fathers had other children outside marriage.

Moll McCarthy was shot dead in November 1940, and her neighbour Harry Gleeson was hanged in Mountjoy for her murder the following April.