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The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
By Kavanagh, Julie
- ISBN
- 9780802149367
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly
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Starred Review on July 1, 2021 | Social Sciences
The murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in 1882 brought global attention to long-standing Anglo-Irish tensions. The Cavendish and Burke assassinations were largely financed by Irish Americans, and were carried out by the self-styled Invincibles, a loosely organized radical splinter cell intent on assassinating British government officials in Ireland. Carrying on and expanding the work begun by her journalist father, author Kavanagh (Nureyev: The Life) has...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
