I'm Irish.. The research on this channel is top class.

I can't believe they left those two poor boys just laying there, so wounded, without helping them much faster.

Imagine a jury “deliberating” for 6 minutes.

Good grief. What a horrible travesty. And undeniably one example of countless such. "Pressure to obtain a conviction" is as bad a motive as revenge.

Wow. What a horrendous failing of “justice” being served.

This case made my blood pressure rise 😤. Multiple innocent men in jail and 1 sent to the gallows because of the lies of the cowards actually involved . With the guilty getting away 🤬.

Horrible case, presented well. I'm an interpreter who works in legal settings, and it's good to be reminded that miscarriages of justice like this helped lead to people's rights to [competent] interpreters in court.

The System is never on trial. It creates the conditions, metes out the punishments but is rarely held to account. What a horrible situation. Thanks for your telling of this story.

Brilliant narration of an extremely complicated case. It was tragically fascinating to me, due to the fact that I taught English as a Second Language. The language barrier played a critical role in the heinous matter of injustice, along with the lies spouted by those men. A tragedy for The Joyces who were slaughtered, and also a tragedy for Myles Joyce because they were all innocent victims caught up in that atrocious attack. They possessed so little, and then their lives were stolen... Your research is spectacular and your voice sooooo soothing as you retell these grim stories. I hope you savor every flavor of this Marvellous Monday, Esteemed Scholar & Storyteller Extraordinaire!!! Long Live Brief Case!!!!!!!

What a tragedy, thanks Brief Case for your excellent work and impeccable research.

Such a tragic case, Myles Joyce should never have been hanged. I can’t believe that even today the truth of the motive is unknown. Thank you for your research and clear narration

What a mess! This case was very confusing to me and I’m sure the people back then felt the same as I. Told as usual in a very eloquent manner. Thank you Mr. Brief Case for such an interesting story on such a cloudy Monday. I’m glad I live in this day and age! ❤

I can't imagine how you would feel if you were the only surviving person in your entire family after them being murdered

Thank goodness that the justice system has changed, although not perfect. It’s at least good to know that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. How horrific it must’ve been for that boy growing up remembering that horrible night and to grow up without his family. 😢 Another tragic piece of history. Thanks for sharing this story. I look forward to next Monday’s video. You truly do a wonderful job! Have a great week! 😃🥰🇨🇦

I had to listen to the full story twice and other bits a few more times. The first time around, I got so confused with all the Casey's involved. Many of us have it so easy nowadays, it is almost impossible to imagine the harsh living conditions of tenant farmers and their families. Working the land morning to night, very high rent and no security for the future, at the mercy of landlords who may evict them on a whim. Two boys sleeping in one room and three adults and a child in a room 6' x 4'. Unbelievable, sad, infuriating. Even more infuriating is that only one of the guilty persons who slaughtered the family paid some kind of price for it. Thank you Brief Case. It was a hard story to hear but history that must be remembered.

I'm Irish as well. Poor people back then . I can't imagine what they went through. Thank you Briefcase for this story and all that you have done for us ☺️

As an Irish person, subscribed for many years, I'd like to thank you for telling this case in the full context of the history surrounding it. The Irish story is perhaps no different to any peoples story around the world. A story of ordinary people struggling under the rulership of one country by another, lands taken over and robbed of its produce by the privileged and rich, its people the same, worked and kept in extreme poverty without a voice and treated with comtempt but its our story so thank you. Your dedication to telling the whole story in the context and your sensitivity to the case is why i suscribe but when its 'one of your own' it hits home. Thanks again. I also love your voice. Often i cannot sleep unless i have one of your vidoes playing. If i fall asleep in the middle, I rewatch the next morning,as i am doing now.😅 Bravo

So sorry that Myles Joyce was hung. I know these pardons mean nothing to the ones wrongly executed but maybe they mean something to their families. R.I.P. Myles! Thank you Brief Case, Happy New Year!

Thank you for making Monday morning something to look forward to Brief Case.

Enjoying my coffee and getting breakfast ready for the kids. Great to have a video to listen to! Thanks Brief Case 🎉

You never fail to disappoint, Brief Case. Wishing you all the best.

You did an amazing job researching and presenting this. What a horrible situation. There was no justice here at all. Unbelievable. Thank you BC!

Dishes are washed, trash taken out, and a cup of tea at the ready. Now it's time to watch your new video. Making for a Monday upload that I do look forward to. Thank you, Brief Case for another excellent video. 💯

What an extremely tragic story. Thank you for bringing it to us. My grandfather ( maternal ) was Irish, from N.Ireland. I never knew him, he died when my mum was 13. He was a Conaghan from Londonderry.

Good morning, everyone!

No wonder people wanted the death penalty abolished with several innocent people being wrongfully executed

Thanks for the upload, Brief Case! Another case I have not heard of. I'll watch this and then order a book about Messi later.

This is one of my favorite KZfaq channels. I love the art as well as the old cases. Thanks!

Getting of work and BC just dropped a new video 😳🥳 thank you for all your hard work and the care you take in presenting these cases❤

Good morning This was a very, very hard one to listen to . It’s heartbreaking to know that innocent people are sent to prison and executed based on lies and threats just to close a case. That still happens today but fortunately, forensic evidence is now available . I can’t imagine what the family goes through and feels knowing they have a loved one that’s about to be executed behind some thing they did not do and back then it was just about closing the case and moving on there really isn’t any moving on for the families or any justice knowing that the person they loved was taken away from them. Thank you for another intriguing story and this one was just very very sad. Have a wonderful week and I can’t wait until next Monday.. Bless 🙏🏽

Wonderful way to start a morning. Thank you @Brief Case!

Thank you for another great story! I got my Monday fix!

Thanks Brief Case! Today's story was so emotional, poor Miles!

The corruption through English suppression of other cultures and language was abhorrent. I’m welsh with Irish grandparents on one side . I have also heard of similar injustices caused to cymreag speakers hauled before English run courts

It sounds like a “take the law into your own hands” situation but it’s tragic for Myles Joyce and the other innocents.

Such a tragic case. When people are pressured into admitting, they committed the crime even though they're completely innocent! So horrific that Myles Joyce was hung. What incredible research you've done for this episode!! I can't wait for your next one!!! Thank you Brief Case!!!!❤

Good brand new day Brief Case and you tube family ❤

Sad bit of history, especially when nobody had any reason for this family should be killed. I have though read a few stories ,where the deeply impoverished family is blamed for stealing a sheep , for the simple reason that a widow woman and her two children had survived a long winter snow storm. When the farmers went to their farm & found them alive after not seeing smoke coming from their chimney for days ,the two farmers on each side of the farm rode out on horseback to pick up the 3 bodies. When to their surprise they were alive wrapped in blankets, the farmers brought them to the sheriff and told him she must have stolen a sheep ,because they had no animals left and were still alive. The mother said she kept making stew for the family with vegetables from her root cellar. The mother was found guilty of sheep rustling and each farmer adopted one kid & divided the property their parents owned in 2. Years later they son took them to court for keeping the kids in the barn & using them as slaves and keeping their parents land . Of course the siblings got nothing even though their mom never stole a sheep. Just that poor folks are often blamed when something goes missing.

I was glad to see a tiny bit of justice for Myles 😢

Good evening BC, got back from KL yesterday. This Irish case is sad!

You’re always on point BC. Another fascinating case!

I love this show! 💕 Well done…great style 🤗🇦🇺👍

Greetings all and BC. Love these stories of times past. Ireland the greenest place on earth. So brutal.

Great 2024 Monday morning Brief Case. Another great upload to start my day.

My grandfather was born in the 1880s in County Cork, and lived his early life is such extreme poverty that after emigrating to the States he resolved never to go back..”a land of hardship and heartbreak”. There’s a very dark aspect of the Celtic soul that not many of aware of, of jealousy, envy, a petty resentment to see others get ahead. It’s not a cardinal feature anymore, but no doubt still exists.

Good morning BriefCase! Thanx for the upload.

Good morning! Hope it's a great day to all. XO

Very interesting! Great narration.👍 From Australia 🐨

Thanks BC, another old case of innocents being wrongfully executed. Awesome research and narration. Thank you for this interesting upload.

Great content as always!

What a hash of a trial! Fascinating case with such interesting footage.. thanks, BC💼 👏👍

Thanks for another fascinating tale! All the way through I kept hoping for the justice that never came 😔

This was an intriguing and yet sad case of a family murdered for apparently no concrete reasons. The justice system failed to examine the facts and innocent people received the death penalty or died in prison. Great investigating, presenting, historical information, backstories, etc.

Good morning and thank you for the video! ❤❤❤

Thank you for this video. I haven't heard about this case before. This sounds the Domenici case and murd3rs of that English family in France 🇫🇷 right after World War II. That case was covered on Great Crimes and Trials.

This was disturbing and upsetting ... Thank you for bringing the case and the just memory of the innocent to light.

Good morning Brief Case

I'm Irish and this case is so unfair! It's also very sad! How lucky are we to live in our time. These people were someone's sons, I have sons, I can't begin to imagine how their mothers felt. Tragic story! Well told BC

Now here’s an amazing channel that will grow fast…for young and old alike! 🏆⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👏👏👏…I needed you when I was bored reading our History Text Books 📚 and studying for exams to answer these types of questions! 🫶🤓

OMG!!! What a story!!! So much intrigue. There is so much detail to this story (and it's aftermath) that I will listen to this video again, to try to better understand just what happened. So sad for the murdered family. So sad for the travesty of justice that affected innocent lives. It made me think of how the wheels of justice can turn so slowly these days .. Yet, if "justice" is carried out too swiftly tragic mistakes can be made. Undeserved prison sentences are bad enough...losing 20 years of your life!...and the poor soul who died in his cell. But, to be hanged as an innocent man is sickening to anyone with a sense of true justice. These juries that took only minutes to reach their verdicts, probably could have cared less about what was or was not true. And then the fact to know that other perpetrators got away scott free????? I do commend the local clergy for keeping pressure up on one individual to make him confess his lies! My heart goes out to Myles. But, probably more so to his wife who was left struggling without him in that harsh era of Irish life. I commend that Irish gov. for finally pardoning Myles. Yet, it is shocking (but not surprising) that the British authority has never done so. This story is one I will have to mull over...and will never forget. Thank you for sharing these stories with us that otherwise we would never know about.

My dearly departed husband was Irish. This story is one of the examples of horrible injustice just to close the case...Rest in Peace Myles Joyce and the others who were innocent of this crime. Thank you, BC.

Thank you for sharing this difficult and tragic story. Very interesting.

Thanks BC, another excellent episode. The motive? I don't know. When poverty rules a persons life strange things can happen.

Hi!!! I always enjoy your stories. This is very interesting and very sad... I Thank You for telling us this story. Maybe they rest in peace...Nice Video...🦋

Happy Monday Brief Case 😊

Good morning all listening from sunny saint Lucia hope everyone has s blessed day

Good morning all from South Jersey USA

Happy new year breif case !! Hope you have many more subscribers this year and looking foward to all your new posts throughout the year 😊

Imagine being tried for murder and not knowing what is actually being said in court. I can't understand how people (lawyers, cops, judges, and accomplices) can live with themselves knowing that they were involved in sending innocent people to be hanged.

Kind of crazy how they didn't actually help the young boys until so long later.

Well done! Thank you for telling this story. As hard as it is to learn more about injustice and cruelty it is a comfort to know the stories are told. Let us remember this story and keep it in mind as we do our best to live together.

Happy new years BC. Looking forward to listening to your vids for another full year

Well well well BC. Another year and as usual you haven't missed a beat. Great job as always and Happy New Year's BC better late than never.

A case from my country I'm really intrigued to hear about this one

Thank you. 🎉 BC !

Hey been sick for a while. God bless Brief Case and have a great week. Wild story ❤

Good morning BC I love your videos and once again it's a great story

Just got this channel, loving it all the way from NZ.🇳🇿

This one was really exceptional, well done!!❤

Thanks very much for this video BC

The whole "trial" was a farce, so tragic for the innocent men and their families. So horrifying for the family that was attacked and murdered. I hope the surviving boys had a better life. 😢

This was a over the top investigation for this story and video posting. This whole story was sad from beginning to the end what got me the worst was the village folk not doing anything to help the two injured but still alive boys and letting one pass, I don't think I could just stand back and do nothing no matter the reprisals I'd have gotten from the villagers. Another Great video posting 👍👍👍👍👍 Thank you for that. 😁😎🍻✌️👋

Really good, very grateful, much obliged!!

Very good reporting on this very sad case, as usual the story is told sympathetically and with seeming full understanding of the terrible acts and the people that were possibly not part of the offences that took place long ago. Well done.

Brilliant storytelling, as always... Thank you, BC you're channel is just riveting and I've been a loyal listener for years 🩷🖤🩷

Good Evening 🎉

Thank you!

Ah it is Monday a miserable day and weather and very miserable and tragic case 😢 ❤ although thanks again for providing this incite into a peace of Irish history

Wonderfully well done.

Very much enjoyed this one.

I agree we live in better times, however there are still judicial injustices in the USA and many private prisons which allow less oversight than publicly owned prisons

The practice of compensating witnesses and offering defendants clemency in return for giving testimony against co-defendents to validate the prosecuation or defence is still prevalent in most Western legal systems to this day. Ditto plea bargains, which put innocent accused people in an horrific dilemma - plead guilty and accept a smaller sentence or plead not guilty and face a much longer sentence and possibly execution. Why this practice has not been banned long ago is difficult to fathom. It has nothing to do with justice.

Happy new year Briefcase 🎉🙏😘🇬🇧

Total lack of justice so sad

Just one very small correction: wool carders are used for _spinning_ wool, not weaving. In particular, they would be used for preparing wool for what is called a woollen spin, as opposed to what is called a worsted spin. For the latter, the wool is combed, not carded. That said, this was such a sad case, with miscarriages of justice everywhere. The police don't appear to have attempted to do a thorough job of solving the crime, it's almost as if they were thinking, "What's one Irish peasant here or there?" I wonder if the survivors knew more than they said but were (understandably) too afraid to say more. I also wonder if the people who discovered the crime scene could have saved both survivors if they'd got help faster. Then there is the issue of language. Without competent translators the accused don't have a hope of a fair trial - and, for that matter, the "justice" system doesn't have a hope of finding out who actually committed the crime or why. An interpreter who spoke a different dialect could be dangerously off the mark, depending upon the dialect spoken by the accused and that spoken by the interpreter. In particular there is the issue of 'false friends', words that sound the same but which have evolved quite different meanings. Then there is the issue of the legal assistance the accused received. They should have had a solicitor and a barrister who were at least vaguely competent and who actually gave a fuck and they should have been working with their clients right from the start, not just warming a seat in the courtroom. The juries' care factors appear to have been down there with the defence lawyers'.

Firstly, Ireland was part of the UK in that period and its laws were administered by Irish Courts, Juries and Judges. They were 'British' in the sense that Scottish, English and Welsh are British now. The UK was not a foreign power, indeed in NI it is still not so. Secondly, when Ireland became independent its historic laws and cases were inherited by the new nation. Therefore only the President of Ireland could issue a pardon - the UK has no status in the matter.

Great case BC. Such a tragedy.

It's really sad to hear about these stories especially when it came out he was in fact innocent. I pray that his family had blessings beyond what they could ever imagine for the loss of their Myles 😢

A heart-breaking tale. Once again we see innocent people punished for crimes they didn't commit. Innocent men admitting guilt for fear of hanging. As for motive, I think the old clan history of that region, prior to British rule, must necessarily be taken into account. Clan warfare was brutal, and much blood was shed in the past, and you still had some families, who clung to those values. Especially in such desperate times. Watching your children go hungry and loved ones be sick, people want someone to blame. Tempers flare. Throw in some alcohol? People can act rashly. I think someone was just angry with that family. A cowardly group that stormed the place in the dead of night and shot unarmed women and children and all the men. God only knows what the women truly endured. Rape was not talked about much. That poor boy to lose his entire family, and the life he knew, entirely gone.

So awful such a terrible story. Look forward to Monday a really great channel.