The Irish Assassins

Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England

New Hardback Illustrated

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In 1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke were ambushed and stabbed to death with modified surgical knives in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. The killers were the Invincibles, a militant republican faction. Julie Kavanagh traces the events that led up to the murders, the damaging effects they had on contemporary Anglo-Irish relations, and the ensuing investigations led by John Mallon, whose success won him a reputation as the ‘Irish Sherlock Holmes'. Slightly off-mint.

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