Inspector Mallon: Buying Irish Patriotism for a Five-pound Note: The Real Inspector Mallon Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Inspector Mallon: Buying Irish Patriotism for a Five-pound Note: The Real Inspector Mallon Book

This is the biography of the famous Irish detective and security policeman, John Mallon (1839-1915). Son of a small Catholic farmer in republican south Armagh, Mallon rose to be assistant commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and for 30 years used the G men (the Detective Division) to subvert revolutionary activity in Dublin. He was remarkably successful; his greatest triumph was bringing to the gallows the Invincibles, who had carried out the Phoenix Park murders. Mallon became a legend in Dublin, mentioned in Joyce's "Ulysses", very popular with his detectives, always courteous, never resorting to violence in dealing with suspects and a master of interrogation who personally controlled an army of paid informers - the Lord Lieutenant once remarking, 'Without Mallon, we would have no one worth a row of beans'.Read More

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  • 0716529947
  • 9780716529941
  • Donal McCracken
  • 18 May 2009
  • Irish Academic Press Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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