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The Irish are celebrated at home and abroad as explorers, freedom fighters and great writers and artists, but for every Tom Crean, Bernardo O'Higgins or James Joyce, there is a Hugh Gough, Antoine Walsh or Luke Ryan. This book is about the Irish slavers, grave robbers, duellists, conmen, drug-lords and killers who wreaked havoc around the world. Includes;
- Burke & Hare grave-robbers turned murderers who supplied cadavers to the medical schools of nineteenth-century Edinburgh.
- Sir Hugh Gough, a Limerick man who commanded the British troops in the first Opium war against China.
- James 'Sligo' Jameson who was rumoured to have fallen into madness and cannibalism in the Congo in 1888 … and many more!
ISBN/EAN | 9781847172990 |
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Author | Joe O'Shea |
Publisher | The O'Brien Press |
Publication date | 21 Sep 2012 |
Format | Paperback |
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Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem
The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish history that wreaked havoc around the world.
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