The Killing of Major Denis Mahon
A Mystery of Old Ireland
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7282832M
- ISBN-139780060840501
- ISBN-100060840501
- OCLC Control Number148887326
- OCLC Control Numberkillingofmajorde0000duff
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007300342
- Goodreads2015671
- LibraryThing3347570
Classifications
- LCCDA950.7 .D84 2007
Description
At the height of the Irish Famine, now considered the greatest social disaster to strike nineteenth-century Europe, Anglo-Irish landlord Major Denis Mahon was assassinated as he drove his carriage through his property in County Roscommon. Mahon had already removed 3,000 of his 12,000 starving 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. Now, for the first time, award-winning journalist Peter Duffy tells the story of this assassination and its connection to the cataclysm that would forever change Ireland and America. - Publisher.
Description
A narrative account of the nineteenth-century assassination of an Anglo-Irish landlord whose demise occurred at the height of the Great Irish Famine evaluates Mahon's possible role in the sufferings of his tenants and draws on the observations of powerful period leaders.
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- The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland
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