Murder at Ireland's Eye Murder at Ireland's Eye

Murder at Ireland's Eye

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Publisher Description

On a fine calm morning in September 1852, a strikingly handsome man and his beautiful wife stepped onto a hired boat in Howth Harbour, Dublin, to set out on a day trip. The destination was Ireland’s Eye, a small uninhabited island less than a mile to the north of the harbour.  


He was an artist, she a keen and adventurous swimmer.


By sunset, when the boat returned to fetch them, she would be dead.


Despite certain gruesome features, the inquest ruled that it was a drowning, and Maria Kirwan was laid to rest. Then a startling secret emerged about the private life of her husband, the artist William Burke Kirwan. After an exhumation, he was arrested for her murder.


The case caused a sensation, the public fascinated by its extraordinary elements. Added to this and almost eclipsing the murder was the scandal: a sexual triangle that aroused the full force of Victorian moral outrage.


The trial was destined to become steeped in controversy and a veil of mystery has hung over the death of Maria Kirwan for the last 160 years. But now, at last, a forgotten medical paper has thrown light on what really happened on that fateful day.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2014
July 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
300
Pages
PUBLISHER
Poolbeg Press
SELLER
Poolbeg Press Ltd
SIZE
2
MB
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