He then applied to Birkbeck College, London, where he entered the Officer Training Corps. Joyce had relatives in Birkenhead, Cheshire, whom he visited on a few occasions. His family followed him to England two years later. Joyce remained in England and briefly attended King's College School, Wimbledon. He was discharged a few months later, after it was found out he was underage. Keating arranged for Joyce to be mustered into the Worcester Regiment soon after, taking him out of the dangerous situation in Ireland to Norton Barracks in England. He was known to associate with Black and Tans at Lenaboy Castle, and was linked to the murder of Father Michael Griffin, a known Irish republican sympathiser. Joyce's father bought houses, and rented some to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC).Īlthough Joyce was still only in his mid-teens, he was recruited during the Irish War for Independence by Captain Patrick William Keating as a courier for British Army intelligence in Galway, then fighting against the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

There were tensions between her and her family because she married a Roman Catholic. Joyce's parents were unionist and hostile to Irish nationalism, and his mother was strongly Anglocentric and devoutly Protestant. Joyce attended Coláiste Iognáid, a Jesuit school in Galway (from 1915 to 1921). His mother was Gertrude Emily Brooke (1878-1944), who although born in Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire, England, was from a well-off Anglican Anglo-Irish family of medical practitioners associated with County Roscommon.Ī few years after William's birth, the family returned to Salthill, Galway, Ireland. His father was Michael Francis Joyce ( 9 December 1866 – 19 February 1941), an Irish Catholic from a family of farmers in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, who had taken United States citizenship on 25 October 1894. William Brooke Joyce was born on Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, New York, United States. ( Theodore Schurch was hanged the following day, but for the crime of treachery rather than treason.) He was hanged on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. Joyce was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and sentenced to death, with the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords both upholding his conviction. William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during World War II. National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)

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