{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65ce3745707bcb0017b8427d/69ee8fb0c8a506316d7c912a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Honour Bright: Murder in The Free State ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65ce3745707bcb0017b8427d/1777240975103-5468695c-fae9-45ff-a2db-fb962976e98d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>25-year-old Honour Bright was found shot and killed in Ticknock in June 1925. Despite multiple eyewitnesses placing her in a car with a Doctor and a Garda Superintendent, the two men who would be charged and tried for her murder were acquitted by a Dublin jury in 1926.</p><p><br></p><p>Honour was a single mother, and likely turned to sex work to support herself and pay for her son's foster care. After the trial, the media used her story as a way to scare young women who were prone to becoming \"wayward\", rather than focusing on the fact that her killer roamed free.</p><p><br></p><p>Links</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.dublininquirer.com/on-a-quiet-south-dublin-road-a-plaque-serves-as-a-reminder-of-a-long-unsolved-murder/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">On a quiet South Dublin road, a plaque serves as a reminder of a long unsolved murder</a><a href=\"https://nursingclio.org/2020/01/07/death-danger-and-decadence-in-1920s-dublin-the-murder-of-honor-bright/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Death, Danger, and Decadence in 1920s Dublin: The Murder of Honor Bright</a><a href=\"https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/an-honour-killing/27874802.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">An Honour Killing</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41645869.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Clodagh Finn: Restoring some honour to Honour Bright, 100 years on</a><a href=\"https://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs/excerpt-from-w-b-yeats-and-the-murder-of-honor-bright-hues-books\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Murder of Lily O'Neill, known as Honor Bright, in 1925 – The Wild Geese</a></p>","author_name":"Jenny Claffey"}