Four Killings : Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution by Myles Dungan

Four Killings : Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution by Myles DunganThe story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 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

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