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The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England

byJulie Kavanagh

Julie Kavanagh reconstructs the 1882 assassination of British chief secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and official Thomas Burke in Dublin's Phoenix Park. The murders, committed by Irish nationalists known as the Invincibles, shocked Victorian Britain and threatened political efforts to address Irish grievances. Detectives, informers, politicians, conspirators, and families drive a story of secrecy, revenge, surveillance, betrayal, and trial. Kavanagh places the crime within colonial rule and the struggle for Irish self-government, showing how spectacular violence can reshape public opinion while exposing the moral and strategic fractures inside revolutionary movements.

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780802149374