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Eighty-three years after he was wrongfully executed for murder, the remains of Harry Gleeson were laid to rest in his native village on Sunday, to the accompaniment of music from his own fiddle.
He was granted a posthumous pardon by the State in 2015. He had always protested his innocence.
As the coffin was taken from Holycross Abbey on Sunday, Anthony Condron – an in-law of the deceased – played Danny Boy on the German-made violin Gleeson had owned in the years before he was hanged at Mountjoy Prison in April 1941.
See below this lovely and poignant moment from last Sunday.
Harry Gleeson’s own fiddle playing a hornpipe at the graveside in his native village of Holycross, Co Tipperary, today where he was buried 83 years after being wrongfully executed in Mountjoy Jail. The musician is Anthony Condron. pic.twitter.com/HsQUUL8kbN
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