The Irish Assassins

Author: Julie KavanaghPublish On: 2021-06-03
The Irish Assassins

Claiming to be an insider's history of nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish tensions, it is essentially a vanity project, in which Tynan—barely disguised as “K”—presents himself as “Captain” of the assassins. (In a long extract in the New ...

Author: Julie Kavanagh

Publisher: Atlantic Books

ISBN: 9781611858983

Category: History

Page: 377

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ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021 'The tale of the Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it with a great sense of drama... Kavanagh's account reminds me of the very best of true crime.' The Times (Book of the Week) On a sunlit evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially-made surgeon's blades. They ended what should have been a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. A new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland's leader Charles Stewart Parnell, with both men forging in secret a pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland - with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone's protégé, to play an instrumental role. The impact of the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the pact, almost brought down the government and set in motion repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell's downfall to Queen Victoria's prurient obsession with the assassinations and the investigation spearheaded by the 'Irish Sherlock Holmes', culminating in a murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an empire. This is an unputdownable book from one of our most 'compulsively readable' (Guardian) writers.
Categories: History

The Irish Assassins

Author: Julie KavanaghPublish On: 2022-08-16
The Irish Assassins

This is an unputdownable book from one of our most "compulsively readable" (Guardian) writers.

Author: Julie Kavanagh

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

ISBN: 0802149375

Category: History

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Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction 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. Ireland, 1879-1882. After 700 years of British rule, the post-Famine generation of Irish tenant farmers began to push back against the reigning feudal system of landownership. The charismatic political leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, headed up the Land League, a revolutionary movement that promised to restore land and power to the people through a series of protests, strikes, and boycotts. After what became known as the Irish Land War had escalated into nationwide anarchy, Parnell and two associates were incarcerated without trial in Kilmainham Gaol. In April 1882, Parnell secretly forged the Kilmainham Treaty, a pact in which he pledged to work diplomatically with British Prime Minister William Gladstone for peace and the eventual independence of Ireland from England. It was a moment of real hope and a potential turning point in history, one that Gladstone himself described as "golden." Yet it would be shattered one sunlit evening, on May 6, l882, as Gladstone's emissary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, who had arrived that day in Dublin, and Thomas Burke, the undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon's blades. The impact of the assassinations was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the peace pact, almost brought down the government, and set in motion repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From Parnell's passionate affair with an Irish MP's wife, Katharine "Kitty" O'Shea, which eventually caused his downfall, to Queen Victoria's prurient obsession with the assassinations; from the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, the "Irish Sherlock Holmes," who tirelessly tracked down each member of the Invincibles, to the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas; The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an empire. This is an unputdownable book from one of our most "compulsively readable" (Guardian) writers.
Categories: History

The Phoenix Park Murders

Author: JULIE. KAVANAGHPublish On: 2021-01-02
The Phoenix Park Murders

A gripping new account of the infamous Phoenix Park murders which rocked Victorian England.

Author: JULIE. KAVANAGH

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ISBN: 1611854512

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Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England

Author: Mo MoultonPublish On: 2014-04-03
Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England

... referring to them as “Irish Assassins” instead of the Irish Republican Army, or following the example of the British soldier who had allegedly removed the buttons of Irish prisoners' trousers, forcing them to march through the city ...

Author: Mo Moulton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781139917087

Category: History

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To what extent did the Irish disappear from English politics, life and consciousness following the Anglo-Irish War? Mo Moulton offers a new perspective on this question through an analysis of the process by which Ireland and the Irish were redefined in English culture as a feature of personal life and civil society rather than a political threat. Considering the Irish as the first postcolonial minority, she argues that the Irish case demonstrates an English solution to the larger problem of the collapse of multi-ethnic empires in the twentieth century. Drawing on an array of new archival evidence, Moulton discusses the many varieties of Irishness present in England during the 1920s and 1930s, including working-class republicans, relocated southern loyalists, and Irish enthusiasts. The Irish connection was sometimes repressed, but it was never truly forgotten; this book recovers it in settings as diverse as literary societies, sabotage campaigns, drinking clubs, and demonstrations.
Categories: History

Daniel O Connell The British Press and The Irish Famine

Author: Leslie A. WilliamsPublish On: 2017-03-02
Daniel O Connell The British Press and The Irish Famine

The present tyranny of the Irish assassins is equal to that exercised by the Jacobins in the worst days of the French Revolution; and yet men are found to talk against even the mildest measures for their repression (2 December 1847).

Author: Leslie A. Williams

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351946360

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 398

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Through an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to "killing remarks," rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?' The book explores the reportage of events and people in Ireland, focussing first on Daniel O'Connell, and then on debates about the seriousness of the Famine. Drawing upon such journals as The Times, The Observer, the Morning Chronicle, The Scotsman, the Manchester Guardian, the Illustrated London News, and Punch, Williams suggests how this reportage may have effected Britain's response to Ireland's tragedy. Continuing her survey of the press after the death of O'Connell, Leslie Williams demonstrates how the editors, writers and cartoonists who reported and commented on the growing crisis in peripheral Ireland drew upon a metropolitan mentality. In doing so, the press engaged in what Edward Said identifies as 'exteriority,' whereby reporters, cartoonists and illustrators, basing their viewpoints on their very status as outsiders, reflected the interests of metropolitan readers. Although this was overtly excused as an effort to reduce bias, stereotyping and historic enmity - much of unconscious - were deeply embedded in the language and images of the press. Williams argues that the biases in language and the presentation of information proved dangerous. She illustrates how David Spurr's categories or tropes of invalidation, debasement and negation are frequently exhibited in the reports, editorials and cartoons. However, drawing upon the communications theories of Gregory Bateson, Williams concludes that the real 'subject' of the British Press commentary on Ireland was Britain itself. Ireland was used as a negative mirror to reinforce Britain's own commitment to capitalist, industrial values at a time of great internal stress.
Categories: Literary Criticism

Irish Terrorism in the Atlantic Community 1865 1922

Author: J. GanttPublish On: 2010-04-29
Irish Terrorism in the Atlantic Community 1865 1922

Reminding its American readers of times when the United States was “overrun with guerrillas, who were far less unscrupulous and cowardly that the Irish assassins,” The Christian Union suggested that there were “times when the terror ...

Author: J. Gantt

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230250451

Category: History

Page: 347

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Using a transnational approach, this volume surveys the origins of Irish terrorism and its impact on the Anglo-Saxon community during an era of intense imperialism. While at times it posed sharp disagreements between Britain and the United States, their ideological repulsion to terrorism later led to cooperation in counter-terrorism strategies.
Categories: History

The Irish Land

Author: George CampbellPublish On: 1869
The Irish Land

Surely the assassin who misses by an inch , or only wounds , is just as criminal as he who makes a better shot . As it is , the Irish assassin may feel that if he makes a good shot and kills his man he is ...

Author: George Campbell

Publisher:

ISBN: OXFORD:600039306

Category: Land tenure

Page: 212

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Categories: Land tenure