18 March 2020

1850: A Deaf man attacks a priest in Dublin - vicious sectarian debate ensues

 


 1850: a Deaf man, Francis McMahon, educated in Claremont, viciously attacks two Catholic priests in a Dublin church during Mass. The story is all over the Irish newspapers for weeks, and reawakens a bitterness between Catholic and Protestant people in Ireland... #deafhistory

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