Ireland

by Frank Delaney

“You see—there’s never a cloudless sky

over the place because Clonmel is ‘the town under a cloud.’ Did you ever hear that? There was a miscarriage of justice here years ago. The English hanged a priest called Father Nicholas Sheehy—they trumped up a charge of murder, and when the judge condemned him to death, Father Sheehy stood in the dock and declared, ‘From this day forth, a cloud will

hang over the town of ...