Six young Irish women.
Convicted of witchcraft and assorted sorcery in the 17th century.
A wicked miscarriage of justice.
Or was it?
In what is believed to have been the last witch trials in the British Isles, the women were convicted in a Carrickfergus court over 300 years ago and spent a year in prison, as well as being put in the public stocks.
Renowned Irish novelist Martina Devlin has penned a new book on the subject, and she also requested that Larne Borough Council erect a small memorial to the women.
….But TUV Alderman Jack McKee has decried the proposal as “anti-God” and said he could not support it.
According to minutes of a council meeting in January, Ald McKee said he “could not tell whether or not the women had been rightly or wrongly convicted as he didn’t have the facts and was not going to support devil worship”.
*lights pitchfork phones Legal Coffee Drinker*
Council row over Islandmagee ‘devil worship’ plaque (LarneTimes)
Islandmagee isn’t in any of the British Isles. It’s just beside Larne.
Ah Ultach, can your rage be tempered by cold, hard, actual facts?
I’d say you’re the kind to interject with “I R A” and “SINN FEIN” in that awful fields of Athenry song
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2011/08/whats-the-difference-between-uk-britain-and-british-isles/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_British_Isles
I didn’t sense any rage from Ultach there. I did however see your self righteous reply. Why don’t you stand up for God Save the Queen while you’re at it.
3 minutes from time of post, first commenter, completely ignores the substance of the post to highlight his misunderstanding a resolved debate, about a geographical label most right-thinking individuals just gloss over, yep, that’s armchair republican outrage alright.
I take it you’re outside of the aforementioned “British Isles”, Mr T?
UOS, aren’t you the perceptive one? I’d say you would say that, but I have the evidence that you say that you would say so. And thanks for the close surveillance of when I posted. Can’t stay, I’m off to lay in wait for something else to be enraged by (snarl). Keep up the good work.
Come on, being detained for a small while and having things thrown at you is only a minor convience and perfectly reasonable protest tactics.
One of them lost an eye from having raw vegetables thrown at her in the stocks, not that funny tbh.
That excuse may have flown with the Gardai but the Ukrainian escort you chained to your radiator still has nightmares about you.
so basically he’s saying that he still thinks it’s just for witches to be burnt. a tolerant fellow.
correction – he still thinks witches should be imprisoned. still an intolerant tw*t.
Holy crap
Fupp me! This guy probably thinks Downton Abbey is a sci-fi.
“I could not support the proposal because I believe it to be anti-God.”
Rationalised argument.
Funny he didnt need all the facts to draw that conclusion
It would only be anti-God if the women were actually witches, which presumably they weren’t, poor things, since witches don’t, like, exist.
The North = The twilight zone. I heard Richard Dawkins on BBC Olster talking about his book a few years ago, jay and sus, the amount of fundamentalist fruitbat callers ringing in to berate the book, (most not having read it..) it was embarrassing for everyone concerned
Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dm2N-vUHn4
Love the title of this and the slides in it. I lolled.
Thanks for this, I look forward to makin’ the tea with it on this evening. :)
If he believes in witchcraft, he is not fit for office. Wonder what his take on evolution is.
No such thing!
Practically a mandatory qualification for Unionist parties. But I expect Unexploded Ordnance Survey will temper my rage vis this with cold hard links to some text written by someone of a different opinion.
I can’t help but think….
What Would Ben Do? …or have done. …burned them, I guess.
Please let this be a thing from now on.
Covered them in menstrual blood and throw them in a bear pit I guess.
Account of the trial here. It was a disgrace. They were convicted on the sole testimony of the visionary images of the victim, Mary Dunbar, a spoilt, pretty, rich young girl. Dunbar later made witch accusations against other women, which were unsuccessful. The accused were not devil worshippers, but regular church attendees. Appalling stuff.
http://www.libraryireland.com/articles/CarrickfergusDPJ1-47/
Such flowery prose from Goody LCD!
BURN HER!
*dodges flying carrot*
THAT”S NO CARROT!
Stop trying to defame the late Mary Dunbar RIP. What proof do you have that these women were not in league with the devil?
Mentally ill girl, many Janets and three others killed on her loopy evidence. Too sad.
You should try green tea you know.
Have only been in Larne once, but this confirms all I suspected when there.
Did you actually stop the car and step outside?
Yeah, sometimes I reflect on these things and I am thankful for not living in such an age. Then I remember a Jordanian pilot was burned alive, in a cage.
Hey, the world is a vampire.
Despite all my rage. Actually listened to that song on the way to work this morning, for the first time in oooo, 5 years. Strange.
The good alderman could be a handy candidate to lead a troop of neo-crusaders on a recon mission to Mosul.
Women were mainly accused of witchery by members of the Protestant faith in Scotland and parts of England. Catholics didn’t go in for it much. Because it’s bolloks.
Should be right up a Catholics street then, no?
If the last witchcraft trial was in 1711 and the first one (Alice Kytler) was in 1324; and Luther only nailed his precepts to the door in 1517; who was accusing women of witchcraft for the first two centuries?
Here yis are lads
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn2.htm
Yes, we’ve no time for that bollocks
*reads history of Catholicism*
O hang on. No. You’re full of sh1t as usual.