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The Killing of Major Denis Mahon by Peter Duffy (2007, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780060840501
- EAN
- 9780060840501
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060840501
ISBN-13
9780060840501
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59067200
Product Key Features
Book Title
Killing of Major Denis Mahon : a Mystery of Old Ireland
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Sociology / General, General, World / European, Landlord & Tenant, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Ireland
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Law, Political Science, True Crime, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
941.5081
Synopsis
The Killing of Major Denis Mahon is the riveting true story of a controversial murder that casts new light on the Great Irish Famine. At the height of the famine now considered the greatest social disaster to strike nineteenth-century Europe, Anglo-Irish landlord Major Denis Mahon from County Roscommon was assassinated as he drove his carriage through his property, which was filled with thousands of starving tenants. Mahon had removed 3,000 of his 12,000 tenants by offering some passage to America aboard disease-ridden "coffin ships," giving others a pound or two to leave peaceably, and sending the sheriff to evict the rest. His murder sparked a sensation and drove many of the world's most powerful leaders, from the queen of England to the pope, to debate its meaning. Award-winning journalist Peter Duffy tells, for the first time, the story of the assassination and its connection to the cataclysm that would forever change Ireland and America. With full access to historical records, including Mahon's private papers, government documents, and extensive court and police files, Duffy tries to uncover the truth about Mahon's murder and the role he did--or did not--play in the sufferings of his tenants, while also shedding new light on the horrific struggles of the starving and impoverished Irish. Gripping, revealing, and heartbreaking, The Killing of Major Denis Mahon is the incredible investigation of the great, unsatisfactorily solved crime of Irish history, and a fresh examination of the horrors of the Great Famine., The author of "The Bielski Brothers" offers this gripping true story of a controversial murder that casts new light on the Great Irish Famine, the greatest social disaster to strike 19th-century Europe.
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