Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles by Burke, Edward
Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles by Burke, Edward

Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles

At 1.20 a.m. on 24 March 1922, five men, four dressed in British police uniforms, broke into...
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Author: Edward Burke
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Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles by Burke, Edward

Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles

$109.97
Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles by Burke, Edward

Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles

$109.97
Author: Edward Burke
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
At 1.20 a.m. on 24 March 1922, five men, four dressed in British police uniforms, broke into the North Belfast house of Owen McMahon, a well-known Catholic publican. They fatally shot McMahon, four of his sons and Eddie McKinney, an employee of the family. Nobody was ever charged for these ruthless and cold-blooded murders. In retaliation for these and other Belfast murders, the IRA assassinated the former head of the British Army, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, and a subsequent British ultimatum to the Irish government sparked the first salvos of the Irish Civil War days later. The reluctance of the unionist Belfast government to pursue loyalist killers drove the rift between Northern Ireland's two main communities even deeper, laying the foundations for the Troubles at the end of the twentieth century. Over 100 years later, Edward Burke has expertly uncovered the identity of the McMahons' likely murderer. This is a riveting cold-case investigation that invokes the smoke-filled streets of Belfast during the cataclysmic violence of 1920- 22, and explores how the ramifications of the McMahon killings are still being felt to this day.

Author: Edward Burke
Publisher: Merrion Press
Published: 11/08/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781785375224

About the Author
Dr Edward Burke is a historian at University College Dublin, specialising in the study of political violence, insurgencies and paramilitarism. His previous books are An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland (Liverpool, 2018) and Ulster's Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 (Cambridge, 2024).


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