Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and a Family in the Irish Revolution

Name: Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and a Family in the Irish Revolution
Brand: Head of Zeus
SKU: 9781800244856
Price: 9.99 GBP
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The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 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.

Mark Clinton was murdered by a group of agrarian 'bandits' who resented his family's possession of some disputed acres; his killer was tried and executed by the dead man's relatives and comrades in the Meath IRA. A mentally challenged youth was shot as an informer by another relative of Dungan's, and buried in secrecy and silence. 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.

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Manufacturer/Publisher: Head of Zeus
Binding: Paperback
Author: Myles Dungan
Date Published: 2022
Pagination: 336p

SKU: 9781800244856

Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and a Family in the Irish Revolution

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