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O'Brien, Gillian.
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Cronin, Patrick Henry, 1846-1889.
Clan na Gael (Organization)
Republicanism -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Irish -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
Secret societies -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Murder -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century.
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O'Brien, Gillian.
Cronin, Patrick Henry, 1846-1889.
Clan na Gael (Organization)
Republicanism -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Irish -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
Secret societies -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Murder -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Blood runs green : the murder that transfixed gilded age Chicago / Gillian O'Brien.
by
O'Brien, Gillian.
The University of Chicago Press, c2015.
Call #:
364.1523 O132b
Subjects
Cronin, Patrick Henry, 1846-1889.
Clan na Gael (Organization)
Republicanism
--
Ireland
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Irish
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Secret
societies
--
Ireland
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Murder
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Case studies.
Physicians
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Biography.
Irish Americans
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Biography.
Chicago (Ill.)
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Series
Historical studies of urban America.
ISBN:
9780226248950 (hc.)
022624895X (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-294) and index.
Contents:
"City of big shoulders" : the convergence of the Clan
--
The United Brotherhood
--
The dynamite war
--
"
Secret
hatreds" : a tale of two trials
--
"Boys, I give up"
--
"The darkest and bloodiest mysteries of
secret
crime"
--
"The whisper of silence"
--
"Truth in essentials, imagination in non-essentials" : the press and public entertainment
--
"A theater of great sensations"
--
"Remember Cronin".
Summary:
"On the night of May 4, 1889, Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin, a 43-year-old prominent Chicago physician, was bludgeoned to death. His attackers were allegedly members of the Clan-na-Gael, a
secret
organization working for Irish independence. His was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. Four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized
history
. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond. The story of Cronin's murder from the police investigation to the trial. Hotheaded journalists in pursuit of sensational crimes, a bungling police force riddled with informers and spies, and a
secret
revolutionary society determined to free
Ireland
but succeeding only in tearing itself apart. The story of a booming immigrant population clamoring for power at a time of unprecedented change. From backrooms to courtrooms, the complexities of Irish Chicago, bringing to life a rich cast of characters and tracing the spectacular rise and fall of the
secret
Irish American society Clan na Gael. Gillian O'Brien is a Reader in Modern Irish
History
at Liverpool John Moores University"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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