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From: Claire Donohue <>
Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] The Killing of Major Denis Mahon
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:52:28 -0400
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him too?

On Oct 25, 2007, at 11:18 AM, OBrien, David wrote:

> This event is also featured in one of the truly great recent
> histories of 19th century Ireland called The End of Hidden Ireland
> by Robert Scally. Scally is affiliated with the Irish Glucksman
> House at NYU. His book is about the Ballykilcline Rebellion right
> before the Famine and it's aftermath in Roscommon. It's a
> wonderful book and the intro is worth reading by itself.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] The Killing of Major Denis Mahon
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>
> Hello, TIGS,
>
> Peter Duffy's new book set during the Great Famine was published
> this month and may interest many TIGS members. Its title is The
> Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland. Denis Mahon
> was the landlord in Strokestown in County Roscommon; his former
> manor house is now the site of Ireland's Famine Museum.
>
>
>
> Duffy, who lives in New York City, focuses on the murder of Mahon
> in an ambush as he rode home from a meeting in Roscommon town in
> November 1847, several months after he evicted several thousand
> tenants and "assisted" nearly 1,000 of them to Quebec. Half of the
> emigrants died in passage or in quarantine at Grosse Ile.
>
>
>
> Duffy not only looks at the actions taken by Denis Mahon but also
> those of the government as matters worsened during the famine. He
> explores the difficult position of the local Catholic priest who
> was accused of inciting the murder and the church hierarchy as they
> responded to the charges.
>
>
>
> In his Boston Globe review of Duffy's book, Kevin Kenney says, "It
> is a significant contribution to the literature of the Great
> Famine, standing alongside Cecil Woodham-Smith's 1962 account, The
> Great Hunger, still in print. And Duffy's exploration of the famine
> years in one community is also a notable achievement in the use of
> local history to illuminate larger events."
>
> Mary Lee Dunn
> (Of TIGS and the Ballykilcline Society)
>
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