{"product_id":"myles-dungan-four-killings-land-hunger-murder-and-a-family-in-the-irish-revolution-2021-paperback","title":"Myles Dungan: Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, \u003ci\u003eFour Killings\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A vivid and chilling narrative ... Confronts uncomfortable questions that still need answering'\u003c\/b\u003e Roy Foster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Marries acute storytelling skills with scholarship, fortified throughout by the author's wry sense of humour'\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Heney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Narrative history, told through a unique prism'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIrish Sunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dungan knows his history; he also knows how to tell a story ... A gem of a book'\u003c\/b\u003e RTE Culture\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dungan, Myles","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":54483640090963,"sku":"XE81800244849","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/dungan-myles-myles-dungan-four-killings-land-hunger-murder-and-a-family-in-the-irish-revolution-2021-paperback-xe81800244849-1252802673.jpg?v=1785855160","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/myles-dungan-four-killings-land-hunger-murder-and-a-family-in-the-irish-revolution-2021-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}