![]() ![]() This new book, In Search of the Donnellys, Second Revised Edition, continues to explore the roots of the feud and recounts the author’s personal adventures in the fifty years he spent searching for such information throughout North America and in Ireland. Its own members called it the Peace Society. Patrick’s parish was implicated in the massacre to the extent that, when circumstances drove him to oppose the Donnellys shortly after his arrival in the community, he founded a so-called Property Protective Association that quickly evolved into the Vigilance Committee. ![]() Two other sons had died not long before, one in seemingly mysterious circumstances that are still argued about to this day, and another in a barroom squabble. ![]() They died at the hands of their fellow church members in their log house on a road known as the Roman Line near the village of Lucan in the County of Middlesex about fifteen miles north of London, Ontario. Why did a vigilance committee of close neighbors massacre several members of the Donnelly family in the early morning hours of February 4th, 1880? The victims included James Donnelly, his wife Johannah, their two sons and a niece of the old man. ![]()
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