Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1		Highwaymen and Robbers
Chapter 2		‘An Abominable Sin’ 1640
Chapter 3		‘Sham Speeches’: Charles Donnell 1712
Chapter 4		Tory Gangs and Turncoats 1720s
Chapter 5		A Case of Abduction 1730
Chapter 6		Liberty and Ormond Boys 1730–1790
Chapter 7		The Lord Santry Trial 1739
Chapter 8		Fatal Duels 1750–1820
Chapter 9		Trouble for the New Police 1780s
Chapter 10		Sheriff Vance on Trial 1789
Chapter 11		Delahunt, Child Killer 1841
Chapter 12		Murder on Ireland’s Eye? 1852
Chapter 13		The James Spollen Trial 1857
Chapter 14		Libel and Dr Wilde 1864
Chapter 15		A Chronicle of Victorian Murder 1870–1900
Chapter 16		Lured to Death 1884
Chapter 17		Smotheration in the Monto c1890–1920
Chapter 18		A Fight Over a Play 1907
Chapter 19		The Crown Jewels Disappear 1907
Chapter 20		An Orgy of Anarchy 1913
Chapter 21		Mountjoy Tales 1900–1960
Chapter 22		War Crime by a Madman 1916
Chapter 23		Murder and Mayhem in Malahide 1926
Chapter 24		Blood Everywhere 1936
Chapter 25		A Murderous Attack in Church 1948
Chapter 26		The Mohangi Case 1963
Epilogue		Horror and Farce

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