Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York
Mark Bulik, "Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York"
English | ISBN: 1531502601 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1531502601 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil.
In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army’s top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target: “Cruxy” O’Connor, a young Irishman who kept switching sides as revolution swept his country in the wake of World War I. Cruxy’s last betrayal dealt a stunning blow to Ireland’s struggle for independence: Six of his IRA comrades were killed when he told police the location of their safe house outside Cork. A year later, the IRA gunned him down in a hail of bullets before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers at the corner of 84th Street and Central Park West.
Based primarily on first-hand accounts, most of them never before published,
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