Dirge of Murty Óg O’Sullivan Bere, composed in Irish by his nurse translated by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, Murty killed John Puxley in turn he was betrayed by his servant Scully, killed, his body dragged by boat from Berehaven to Cork beheaded and his head lay for years on Cork Jail.
Callanan
There is a similarity also in the judicial murder of Art O’Leary (Art Ó Laoighre) some year later. Both were of the old Gaelic Stock and held commissions in Continental Regiments and fell foul of the new class Puxley and Morris




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