The Irish assassins : conspiracy, revenge and the Phoenix Park murders that stunned Victorian England / Julie Kavanagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kavanagh, Julie, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavendish, Frederick--Assassination.

Cavendish, Frederick.

Burke, Thomas Henry, 1829-1882--Assassination.

Burke, Thomas Henry.

Assassination.

Ireland--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Ireland.

Politics and government.

Ireland--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

International relations.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Ireland.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

xvii, 473 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021.

Summary:

A brilliant work of historical true crime charting a pivotal event in the l9th century, the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin, that gripped the world and forever altered the course of Irish history, from renowned journalist, former New Yorker London editor, and Costa Biography Award finalist Julie Kavanagh.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One. The Leader

Two. That Half-Mad Firebrand

Three. The "Irish Soup" Thickens

Four. Fire Beneath the Ice

Five. Captain Moonlight

Six. The Invincibles

Seven. Coercion-in-Cottonwool

Eight. Mayday

Nine. Falling Soft

Ten. Mallon's Manhunt

Eleven. Concocting and "Peaching"

Twelve. Who Is Number One?

Thirteen. Marwooded

Fourteen. An Abyss of Infamy

Fifteen. The Assassin's Assassin

Sixteen. Irresistible Impulse.

Notes:

Simultaneously published: London : Grove Press UK, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.

ISBN:

9780802149367

0802149367

OCLC:

1260159081