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Four killings, land hunger, murder and family in the Irish Revolution, Myles Dungan

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Four killings, land hunger, murder and family in the Irish Revolution, Myles Dungan
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and index
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Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Four killings
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1227382698
Responsibility statement
Myles Dungan
Sub title
land hunger, murder and family in the Irish Revolution
Summary
"Myles Dungan's family was involved in four violent deaths between 1915 and 1922. Jack Clinton, an immigrant small farmer from County Meath, was murdered in the remote and lawless Arizona territory by a powerful rancher's hired assassin; three more died in Ireland, and each death is compellingly reconstructed in this extraordinary book. What unites these deaths is the violence that engulfed Ireland during the campaign against the British, but also the passions unleashed by arguments over the ownership of the soil. That often brutal struggle between landless labourers and smallholders and more prosperous farmers is a forgotten aspect of the war of independence. Myles Dungan's book, focused on one family, offers an original perspective on this still controversial period: a prism through which the moral and personal costs of violence, and the elemental conflict over land, come alive in surprising ways"--Publisher's description
Table of contents
The Clintons of Cloggagh. Arizona, 1915 -- The first killing -- The second killing -- Retribution -- The third killing -- The McKennas of Mullagh. The merchant of Mullagh -- The informer -- The fourth killing -- Argentina -- Epilogue
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