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Phoenix Park murders
Phoenix Park murders name given to the assassination on May 6, 1882, of Lord Frederick Cavendish, British secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his undersecretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin. They were stabbed to death by members of the "Invincibles," a terrorist splinter group of the Fe... Read more
Phoenix
Phoenix city (1990 pop. 983,403), state capital and seat of Maricopa co., S Ariz., on the Salt River; inc. 1881. It is the largest city in Arizona, the hub of the rich agricultural region of the Salt River valley, and an important center for research and development, electronics, telecommunications... Read more
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell , 1846-91, Irish nationalist leader. Haughty and sensitive, Parnell was only a mediocre orator, but he possessed a marked personal fascination and was a shrewd political and parliamentary tactician. He succeeded in uniting the moderate and militant Irish nationalists in the d... Read more
Tempe
Tempe , city (1990 pop. 141,865), Maricopa co., S Ariz., in the Salt River valley, a suburb of Phoenix ; inc. 1894. Its population has grown markedly since the 1970s with the expansion of the greater Phoenix area. Tempe is a health resort and an agricultural center, with lands irrigated by the Salt... Read more
Dublin
Dublin Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River. Its harbor, with shipyards, docks, and quays, dates from 1714. It is the center of the Irish railway network. It has an internat... Read more
Jimmy Stewart
Jimmy Stewart (James Maitland Stewart), 1908-97, American actor, b. Indiana, Pa. He began his film career in 1935 and soon gained popularity for his lanky good looks, slow drawl and shy, homespun charm, evident in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). In later years, he brought these qualities to ... Read more
Glendale
Glendale 1 City (1990 pop. 148,134), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., adjacent to Phoenix; inc. 1910. It is located in a rich agricultural region irrigated by the Salt River project. Glendale has become one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities, marked by a population increase of more than 52% between... Read more
Arizona
Arizona , state in the southwestern United States. It is bordered by Utah (N), New Mexico (E), Mexico (S), and, across the Colorado R., Nevada and California (W). Facts and Figures Area, 113,909 sq mi (295,024 sq km). Pop. (2000) 5,130,632, a 40% increase since the 1990 census. Capita... Read more
suburb
suburb a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent., particularly in the United States, population growth in urban areas has spilled increasingly outside the city limi... Read more
Robert Altman
Robert Altman 1925-2006, American film director, b. Kansas City, Mo. One of the most original talents in late-20th-century American filmmaking, he created complex, often loosely plotted movies marked by brilliant and often huge ensemble casting, sharply delineated characters, overlapping dialogue, ... Read more

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Phoenix Park murders
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History Phoenix Park murders (6 May 1882), the assassination with surgical knives of the newly appointed...Burke, carried out by the Invincibles . Horrifying British opinion, the murders forced Gladstone to maintain coercion in Ireland at a time when, following... Read more
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition see Phoenix Park murders . Read more
Invincibles
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...organized in November 1881 by James Carey, David Curley, James Mullett, and Edward McCaffrey, carried out the Phoenix Park murders , atrocities which provoked a very intensive police investigation. By July 1882 Carey was identified as a prime... Read more
‘Parnellism and crime’
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...damaging link was in a letter of 15 May 1882, in which he apparently expressed regret at having to condemn the Phoenix Park murders . Parnell denounced the letters in the House of Commons and demanded a select committee to investigate their authenticity... Read more
Home Rule
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...minority had recourse to violence, and Parnell disavowed the murder of two British officials in Dublin in 1882 (see Phoenix Park murders ). The First Home Rule Bill In 1886, William Gladstone committed the Liberal party to Home Rule. His bill of 1886... Read more
Cavendish, Lord Frederick
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...E. Forster resigned, was sent to Ireland as chief secretary to replace him. Arriving in Dublin on 6 May he walked in Phoenix Park with T. H. Burke, the under-secretary, and was attacked and stabbed to death by a gang known as the Invincibles . One... Read more
Charles Stewart Parnell
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...would help check violence against landlords. The Phoenix Park murders of 1882 shocked Parnell as much as they did the...signature and apologizing for his denunciation of the Phoenix Park murders. A special commission found (1889) that the letter... Read more
Herbert Henry Asquith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...junior counsel for Charles Parnell before the Commission of Enquiry (investigating Parnell's alleged approval of the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin) brought him to public notice. In 1890 he became a queen's counsel. When William Gladstone and the Liberals... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Phoenix Park murders"

Phoenix Park murders
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Phoenix Park murders (1882) The assassination in Phoenix Park, Dublin, of the British Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and his Under-Secretary, T. H. Burke, by the “... Read more
phoenix
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable phoenix (in classical mythology) a unique...variation of the myth stated that the phoenix burnt itself on the altar of the...from the ashes and became the young phoenix. phoenix company a derogatory term for an...is recorded from the early 1990s. Phoenix Park Murders the murder ... Read more
Cavendish, Lord Frederick
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...resigned, Cavendish was sent to Ireland as chief secretary to replace him. Arriving in Dublin on 6 May he walked in Phoenix Park with T. H. Burke, the under‐secretary, and was stabbed to death by a gang known as the Invincibles. Cavendish... Read more
Gladstone, William Ewart
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Parnell , and breaking the power of the Irish Land League . From 1882, disregarding the set‐back of the Phoenix Park murders , he sought to encourage the constitutional character of the Home Rule movement. His government resigned in 1885... Read more

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Ex-policeman murder: man charged.
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); 1/24/2008; 359 words ; ...bloke. Everyone on the street got on with him. Customers used to park on the street and he paid for a street bonfire party to keep...smashing lad. Friend and fellow car trader Martin Moore, 30, of Phoenix Motors,Thornes Road, Wakefield, said: He liked living life to... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United States; 1/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...Payson 14,719 32 0 Peoria 131,307 307 9 Phoenix 1,428,973 9,465 202 Prescott 38,674 132...3 Bakersfield 274,162 1,948 23 Baldwin Park 79,655 311 3 Banning 27,599 111 2 Barstow...38,326 89 0 Brentwood 36,652 87 4 Buena Park 79,845 317 3 Burbank 104,551 262 4 Burlingame... Read more
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Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...diptheria, the speculative Oedipal dimension to his slow reading and bad spelling, or his father's response to the Phoenix Park murders ('Symbolically, during the trial of the Invincibles, he sat in court and made sketches' (p. 31)). For Yeats, Maud... Read more
Murdered ex-policeman 'kept thousands of pounds at home'.
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); 1/24/2008; 460 words ; ...bloke. Everyone on the street got on with him. Customers used to park on the street and he paid for a street bonfire party to keep...smashing lad. Friend and fellow car trader Martin Moore, 30, of Phoenix Motors,Thornes Road, Wakefield, said: He liked living life to... Read more