Butcher Of Belfast

Author : Martin Dillon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409065227

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The Shankill Butchers by Martin Dillon Pdf

The bestselling investigation of one of Northern Ireland's most brutal and infamous murder cases 'Makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading' Washington Times 'Dillon is recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of British-Irish politics. He stands alone as one of the most creative writers of our time' Irish Times ________________________________ 'This was the ultimate way to kill a man.' In the 1970s, in some of the most violent days of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which left thirty Catholics dead in the Shankill area of Belfast. Their leader was Lenny Murphy: a fanatical Unionist whose Catholic-sounding surname had led to his persecution as a child, Murphy swore revenge on all Catholics, and with his gang wreaked havoc onto an already fractured city. Not for the squeamish, The Shankill Butchers is a horrifying and detailed account of one of the most brutal series of murders in British legal history - a phenomenon whose real nature has been obscured by the troubled and violent context from which it sprang.

Author : Aaron Edwards
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785371066

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UVF by Aaron Edwards Pdf

UVF: Behind the Mask is the gripping new history of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its post-1965 incarnation to the present day. Aaron Edwards blends rigorous research with unprecedented access to leading members of the UVF to unearth the startling inner-workings of one of the world’s oldest and most ruthless paramilitary groups. Through interviews with high-profile UVF leaders, such as Billy Mitchell, David Ervine, Billy Wright, Billy Hutchinson and Gary Haggarty, as well as their loyalist rivals including Johnny Adair, Edwards reveals the grisly details behind their sadistic torture and murder techniques and their litany of high-profile atrocities: McGurk’s Bar, the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the Miami Showband massacre and the Shankill Butchers’ serial-killing spree, amongst others. Edwards’ life and career has led him to the centre of the UVF’s long, dark underbelly; in this defining work he offers a comprehensive and authoritative study of an armed group that continues to play a pivotal role in Northern Irish society.

Author : Stuart Neville
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569477069

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The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book and Winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Neville's debut remains "a flat-out terror trip" (James Ellroy) and "one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times" (John Connolly). Northern Ireland’s Troubles may be over, but peace has not erased the crimes of the past. Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the twelve people he slaughtered. Every night, at the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. But it’s not enough. In order to appease the ghosts, Fegan is going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces, the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen, all are called to account. But when Fegan’s vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce and destabilize the government, old comrades and enemies alike want him dead.

Author : William J. Smyth
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442666764

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Toronto, the Belfast of Canada by William J. Smyth Pdf

In late nineteenth-century Toronto, municipal politics were so dominated by the Irish Protestants of the Orange Order that the city was known as the “Belfast of Canada.” For almost a century, virtually every mayor of Toronto was an Orangeman and the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne was a civic holiday. Toronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today’s cosmopolitan city. Using lodge membership lists, census data, and municipal records, William J. Smyth details the Orange Order’s role in creating Toronto’s municipal culture of militant Protestantism, loyalism, and monarchism. One of Canada’s foremost experts on the Orange Order, Smyth analyses the Orange Order’s influence between 1850 and 1950, the city’s frequent public displays of sectarian tensions, and its occasional bouts of rioting and mayhem.

Author : Patrick Radden Keefe
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780385543378

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Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be an FX limited series streaming on HULU • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a novel—Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga." —New York Times Book Review Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Victoria
ISBN : NYPL:33433082378971

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The Victoria Post Office Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Gamble
Publisher : Field Day Publications
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780946755431

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Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland by John Gamble Pdf

Author : Nigel Collett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1852855754

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The Butcher of Amritsar by Nigel Collett Pdf

On 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches. This is an account of the massacre set in the context of a biography of a man whose attitudes reflected many of the views common in the Raj.

Author : Patrick McCabe
Publisher : Picador
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Community life
ISBN : 1447275160

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The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe Pdf

With an introduction by Ross RaisinA modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize.When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the troubles at home and getting up to mischief with his best friend Joe - hiding in the chicken-house, shouting abuse at fish in the local stream. But after a disagreement with his neighbour Mrs Nugent over her son's missing comic books, Francie's reckless streak spirals out of control and gives rise to a monstrous obsession . . .Fearless, shocking and blackly funny, Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy won the 1992 Irish Times Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. It is a modern classic of Irish fiction, a portrait of the insidious violence latent in small town life and of a frenzied young man lashing out at everyone, even himself.

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Tuberculosis
ISBN : UCAL:C2903415

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Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Administrative Procedures for Controlling Danger to Man Through the Use as Food of the Meat and Milk of Tuberculous Animals ... by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis Pdf

Author : Oliver and Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555074051

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Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository. [With] Western suppl by Oliver and Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac Pdf

Author : Richard Shepherd,Monique Raats
Publisher : CABI
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780851990323

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The Psychology of Food Choice by Richard Shepherd,Monique Raats Pdf

Written by leading international experts, this book explores one of the central difficulties faced by nutritionists today; how to improve people's health by getting them to change their dietary behaviour. It provides an overview of the current understanding of consumer food choice by exploring models of food choice, the motivations of consumers, biological, learning and societal influences on food choice, and food choices across the lifespan. It concludes by examining the barriers to dietary change and how nutritionists can best impact upon dietary behaviour.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106543853

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Butchers
ISBN : WISC:89062295704

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The Butcher Workman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eamon Phoenix
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1903688493

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Feis Na NGleann by Eamon Phoenix Pdf

The Glens of Antrim formed one of the last Irish-speaking areas of Ulster until the early 1900s. Until the opening of the Antrim coast road in the 1850s Irish was universally spoken in the Glens and on Rathlin. The turn of the 19th century saw the Gaelic Revival which in the north of Ireland involved both Unionists and Nationalists in an effort to preserve Irish as a spoken language. It was against this background of cultural renaissance that Feis na nGleann ('The Glens Feis') was founded in 1904 as the first Gaelic cultural festival in east Ulster. That inaugural Feis harnessed the talents of the Glens folk and a group of leading "Big House" figures in the locality, among them Miss Rose Young of Galgorm Castle, Miss Ada McNeill of Cushendun, and Miss Margaret Dobbs. Others included Sir Roger Casement, then a recent convert to Irish nationalism, Eoin MacNeill, Glensman and language revivalist, Francis Joseph Bigger, lawyer and antiquarian, John 'Benmore' Clarke and Joseph Campbell, the Belfast poet. This book traces the origins of Feis na nGleann in that 'crease in time' between Parnell and the 1916 Rising. In a series of scholarly chapters, experts profile the historic founders of the Feis and record the history of Irish in the district. There are special sections on the traditional arts and crafts fostered by the Feis, the once famous Glens toy-making industry, the role of hurling and the rich literary legacy of the Feiseanna. The book is lavishly illustrated with unique contemporary photographs. The result is attractive and readable volume which will appeal to all those interested in the history and culture of the Glens and the fortunes of the Irish language in the north of Ireland.