Patrick Hore Day 2020

     The fifth of April, Patrick Hore Day, has rolled around again.  The annual tribune to my ancestor whose life was cruelly snuffed out by the British occupiers of his native country.  You can read Patrick's story by following the link below:

http://elliesancestors.blogspot.com/2018/02/so-they-hung-patrick-after-all.html

     To add to the narrative, I've been able to uncover the person responsible for his murder by hanging, this is the man who condemned Patrick.  His mention here will be brief as befits him.

     A newspaper covering the  March Carlow Assizes, published an article in April of 1798 that spoke of  the executions of four prisoners, Patrick among them, on April fifth whose trials were presided over by Judge Toler, aka, "The Hanging Judge", later known as Lord Norbury.  
     Toler was born in 1745 to Daniel Toler, a man of comparable morals who among other abuses, used his position as High Sheriff to pack the jury during the trial of a Catholic Priest he wanted out of the way, resulting in the man's hanging.  
     Moira Lysaght, in the Dublin Historical Record, Vol. 30 of March 1977, described Judge Toler as, "a cold-blooded tyrant contemptuous of the little law he knew..." 
     By the time of this despicable little man's death in 1831, he had blithely ordered the executions of many hundreds of Irish men and women.  At his own burial, the ropes used for lowering his coffin were discovered to be too short for the job at hand.  As search was made for longer ropes, a voice from the crowd was heard to say, "Give him rope galore, boys; he was never sparing of it to others".