May 30, 2012

After the Wake

The body of a woman named Margaret McGlinsky was found in the canal at Middlewich.  She attended an Irish wake, and was not again seen alive.  (Yorkshire Evening Post, February 3rd, 1891)

2 comments:

  1. Like that doesn't happen every day...

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  2. some anti-Irish bias is apparent in a number of these.

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