Killing of Major Denis Mahon A Mystery of Old Ireland

Name: Killing of Major Denis Mahon A Mystery of Old Ireland
Price: 2.89 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780060840518

ISBN-10: 006084051X

ISBN-13: 9780060840518

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Duffy

List price: $16.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $14.58

Marketplace

4 new & used from $2.89

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

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…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Peter Duffy is Head of Master of Arts in Teaching Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina, USA.