The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England

Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction

A brilliant work of historical true crime charting a pivotal event in the l9th century, the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin, that gripped the world and forever altered the course of Irish history, from renowned journalist, former New Yorker London editor, and Costa Biography Award finalist Julie Kavanagh.

Ireland, 1879–1882. After 700 years of British rule, the post-Famine generation of Irish tenant farmers began to push back against th...