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Transportation
Michael Keenan was transported on the Earl St Vincent, departing 29th Apr 1823 and arriving 9th Sep 1823 with 161 passengers.
Earl St Vincent (generic)References
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Convict Notes
MONDAY, NOV. 4, 1822. MOST IMPORTANT TRIAL—RIBBONISM IN DUBLIN. Yesterday, at the sitting of the Court, Michael Keenan was put forward, charged with administering unlawful oaths. The Attorney-General, addressing their Lordships, regretted that the discharge of his duty public prosecutor, he was obliged bring forward evidence which would leave no doubt of the existence a certain Society, and of the prisoner’s connexion with it. He was indicted under the ... the late King; all the clauses of which Act the Learned Prosecutor explained: the penalty for administering an unlawful oath under this Act, was was transportation for life; the penalty for taking that oath was seven years transportation. For more than two or three years, this country had been disgraced by illegal Societies of a disgusting nature, they were formed for the purpose of resisting the laws, disturbing the settled arrangements and economy of the country, and overthrowing the Government. The means by which these have been sought to be effected he shall, said he, submit in evidence. He felt great satisfaction in saying that the members of this Society were of an humble class, and not connected with the disturbers in the South of Ireland; the system had been taken from that which had been discovered in this country in 1707 and 1798, and in 1803. In one feature only did it differ from these—for the present, he understood was confined to persons professing one religious persuasion, none having been admissible except Roman Catholics. At one time the object the Society was the overthrow the Government—at another, they foolishly aimed at the overthrow of the. Protestant religion. then recited the evidence prepared to brought forward in this case ; adverted to the principal witness, whose evidence; as an informer, who had taken one oath to the Association, and would take another in Court, was, under their experience in similar cases, to he peculiarly considered. The Learned Gentleman pointed out ... Saunders’s News-Letter, 5 Nov 1822.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Michael Keenan, alias Keanan, age on arrival, 40, Per Earl St Vincent, (3) 1823. Tried at Dublin City. 1822, Life, Crime: Administering unlawful oaths. Irish Rebel. Trade, Carman. DOB 1798, Native place, Maynooth Dublin Co.