Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin EPUB
by Stephen Wade
Part of the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series
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Tory gangs, madmen, war criminals, frauds, anarchists, duelists, kidnappers, and more scandal-makers throughout four centuries of Irish history.
Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural centerthe pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflictsand a long, fascinating history of crime.
Stephen Wade now reveals Dublin's ';strange eventful history' in this thrilling collection of murderers, thieves, daredevil highwaymen, libelers, seducers, and bloody avengersfrom eighteenth-century turncoats to Victorian-era rogues to a twentieth-century parliamentary candidate with a killer past. Amid tales of sensational investigations and infamous courtroom trials, readers will discover the truth behind the disappearance of the Crown Jewels in 1907; the bizarre motives of nineteenth-century serial killer John Delahunt; and the startling charges leveled against Oscar Wilde's father, a revolutionary doctor embroiled in a felonious and sexual cause celebre of his own.
Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural centerthe pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflictsand a long, fascinating history of crime.
Stephen Wade now reveals Dublin's ';strange eventful history' in this thrilling collection of murderers, thieves, daredevil highwaymen, libelers, seducers, and bloody avengersfrom eighteenth-century turncoats to Victorian-era rogues to a twentieth-century parliamentary candidate with a killer past. Amid tales of sensational investigations and infamous courtroom trials, readers will discover the truth behind the disappearance of the Crown Jewels in 1907; the bizarre motives of nineteenth-century serial killer John Delahunt; and the startling charges leveled against Oscar Wilde's father, a revolutionary doctor embroiled in a felonious and sexual cause celebre of his own.
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- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:Pen & Sword Books
- Publication Date:22/04/2008
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- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:Pen & Sword Books
- Publication Date:22/04/2008
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- ISBN:9781844687060
