TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kavanagh,Julie
TI  - The Irish assassins: conspiracy, revenge and the murders that stunned an Empire 
SN  - 9781611854510 (pbk.)
U1  - 941.5081 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Burke, Thomas Henry,
KW  - Cavendish, Frederick Charles,
KW  - Irish National Invincibles
KW  - Phoenix Park Assassination, 1882
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Dublin
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Irish question
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1837-1901
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The leader -- That half-mad firebrand -- The "Irish soup" thickens -- Fire beneath the ice -- Captain Moonlight -- The invincibles -- Coercion-in-cottonwool -- Mayday -- Falling soft -- Mallon's manhunt -- Concocting and "peaching" -- Who is number one? -- Marwooded -- An abyss of infamy -- The assassin's assassin -- Irresistible impulse
N2  - In May 1882, a double murder occurred in full daylight in Dublin's Phoenix Park. One victim was an Irish bureaucrat, Thomas Burke; the other was Lord Frederick Cavendish, gentle aristocrat and much-loved protege of Prime Minister William Gladstone. Shockwaves from the stabbings were felt from Windsor Castle to Donegal, and the campaign for Home Rule suffered a serious blow. The Irish Assassins sheds new light on this low point in the vexed relationship between Ireland and England. With great skill and eloquence, acclaimed biographer Julie Kavanagh restores formidable characters like inspiring Irish leader Charles Parnell, his mistress Katharine O'Shea and the widowed Lucy Cavendish to vivid life in her account of a seminal incident whose aftereffects still resonate today
ER  -