Silent Witness star Liz Carr discovered that her great-great-grandfather had run away with an attempted murder in 1852
The actress is the latest star to return to her family tree in Who Do You Think You Are? but remains in conflict when she finds out that ancestor Barney Ryan was part of a plot to kill a landowner
A true avowed crime obsessive, just like her character Clarissa Mullery in TV favorite, Liz said her own adventure felt like a ‘treasure trail’ and, while she was thrilled to be to be part, his head was trapped between his actions and the intention behind them
Talking to Metroco UK, she explained: “We went to Northern Ireland, and it turns out there was an attempted murder And it’s really finding out what my involvement was. parent in there – Was he a murderer? Or not? I’m teased!
« But the reason is that it is revenge against a greedy landowner and a malicious landowner, whom many people were suffering from because of his actions So his motive was not just your usual – it wasn’t revenge, and it wasn’t a love tiff, or none of that
« It was a group of men who were trying to get their point across because they didn’t think they had the right to vote
« They felt they were not being listened to in the law and they felt they were taking justice into their own hands. It was exciting! »
“Of course, I don’t approve of how far it went and what happened,” she later added “But the reason – that the men involved in particular were fighting for change and justice – this I fully understood «
While Barney escaped his involvement in the plot, a man named Francis Berry was captured and then killed for his participation in the crime
Liz later admitted she enjoyed being connected with an activist, her own disability work joining the ranks of those who stood up for what was right
« The fact that I had this connection to crime and connection to activism was beyond anything I expected, and I love it, » she told us
Barney then moved to Scotland, where he started a family and led a normal life, before being killed in a mining accident
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