William Murphy (activist) explained

William Murphy (1834–1872) was an Irish anti-Catholic activist and public lecturer.^[1] Murphy was born at Castletown Conyers, County Limerick, on 1 August 1834; he was killed at Whitehaven in 1872 by a group of angry Irish miners.

Sources

• Encyclopedia: 2009 . Murphy, William . . Cambridge University Press; Royal Irish Academy . Geoghegan . Patrick M. . online.

Further reading

• Book: Ashbee, Henry Spencer [Pisanus Fraxi] . none . Centuria Librorum Absconditorum . privately printed . 1879 . London . 92, 212.

External links

• Web site: Wohl . Anthony S. . 4 April 2002 . The Murphy Riots . The Victorian Web.

Notes and References

1. Geoghegan 2009.