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title: "The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland"
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# The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland

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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent History of the Irish Potato Famine.  Culiminating in the Killing of  a Protestrant Land Owner
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2008*

Duffy writes a fascinating account of the Irish potato famine during 1846-49 by examining a local community in Ireland that during the famine, now defined as genocide, suffers severely, as all of Ireland does. The severity of the famine is made even worse by actions of large land owners and the English government to remove small plot farmers, to reduce dependence on potatoes and increase alternative agricultural production, that rent by eviction and mass forced immigration during the heights of the potato famine that resulted in over a million deaths and 1.5 million forced or coerced immigrations, many of whom died in transit on over populated ships. Massive relief efforts are slow and not efficient as England initiates limited relief requiring landlords to fulfill part of the financial obligations but what is fascinating was that the famine was widely known in the western world about the level of death as many countries (including the U.S.) offer private or governmental assistance although limited. Soup dispensaries are set up effectively in many cases but are under funded and struggle to stay open and poor houses virtually act like a prison system and are severe on the populace. In Stokestown, Major Mahon, a sometimes absent landlord carries out evictions with less severity than many landlords, pays some subsidies and limited fees for immigration, but still turns many poor out leaving them little in shelter but the ability to remove their thatched roofs to set up as temporary cover. A conflict over relief funding with the local parish priest allegedly fuels the priest to target open criticism on Major Mahan resulting in the priest being accused of inflaming the suffering to commit a severe act of violence. Duffy tells the history virtually before Cromwell to the mass deaths of the Irish famine leading up Mahan's killing and the aftermath. Duffy expertly tells the story of the killing of Major Mahon that shocked England all the way to Parliament, along with the slow revelation of controversial witnesses, resulting in conviction by circumstantial evidence. The strength of this unique telling is the concentration on this local community that reflects what as happening in all of Ireland with the exception of the notable killing of a local elite well connected to England. Duffy covers the trials extraordinary well and this is a great telling of a horrific time in our world history told on virtually a local level of the Irish community.

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    Fantastic writing and research
  

*by T***G on Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2019*

I have a soft spot for non-fiction books that are written without the characteristic academic flavor. This book meets on all levels. The author does not make judgments about the decisions made during the famine, but he does present the information and its history with all the requisite understanding of tragedy in hindsight. I love books like this, and I'm grateful for the work that went into it.

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    The Catastrophic Failure of a Lifestyle
  

*by G***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2015*

A fascinating "page-turner", which graphically describes the failure of the traditionalAnglo-Irish land distribution system, the international spread of the potato blight fungus, the insensitivity of the British government to the plight of starving Irish peasants almost totally reliant on the potato, and the fatal consequences (to himself and many tenant families) of a well-meaning but weak and inept absentee landlord, who tries to manage his declining estate with the help of a pitiless overseer.

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