Myles Dungan
Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution
Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution
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Four Killings is a book about political murder, land ownership, and the savagery it can unleash, told through the story of a single family during the Irish Revolution. It combines acute storytelling skills with scholarship and humor, and offers a unique perspective on this controversial period.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Publisher: Head of Zeus
The Story of a Single Family During the Irish Revolution, Four Killings
The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings, is a book about political murder, the powerful hunger for land, and the savagery it can unleash. Roy Foster marries acute storytelling skills with scholarship, fortified throughout by the author's wry sense of humor. Michael Heney describes the narrative history, told through a unique prism, as "sober and intelligent." Irish Sunday Independent calls it a "gem of a book," while RTÉ Culture praises Dungan's ability to show that little people can make history too. Four Killings offers an original perspective on this still controversial period, focusing on one family and revealing the moral and personal costs of violence and the elemental conflict over land in surprising ways.
The Story of a Single Family During the Irish Revolution, Four Killings
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 war of independence, but also the passions unleashed by arguments over the ownership of the soil. In focusing on one family, Four Killings 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.
Weight: 246g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800244856
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