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Phoenix Park murders
Phoenix Park murders. Late in the afternoon of 6 May 1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish, newly appointed chief secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Burke, his under-secretary, were walking in Phoenix Park (Dublin) when four men leapt from a cab and stabbed them to death. Soon afterwards newspaper offices in Dublin received black-edged cards, claiming the outrage for a nationalist group called the ‘Irish Invincibles’. They were never caught. The immediate political effect was a new bout of ‘coercion’ in Ireland, against Prime Minister Gladstone's more conciliatory instincts. In 1888 The Times claimed it had proof that Parnell had been implicated; but it turned out to have been fooled—not for the last time—by a forgery.
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JOHN CANNON. "Phoenix Park murders." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Phoenix Park murders." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-PhoenixParkmurders.html JOHN CANNON. "Phoenix Park murders." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-PhoenixParkmurders.html |
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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 Fenian movement . Two of those arrested turned state's evidence, five were hanged, and three were sentenced to penal servitude. Charles Stewart Parnell was alleged (1887) by his political enemies to have been personally involved in the plot. A parliamentary commission appointed to investigate the charges exonerated him (1890). |
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"Phoenix Park murders." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Phoenix Park murders." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-PhoenixP.html "Phoenix Park murders." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-PhoenixP.html |
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Phoenix Park murders
Phoenix Park murders (6 May 1882), the assassination with surgical knives of the newly appointed Irish chief secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the under‐secretary, T. H. Burke, carried out by the Invincibles. Horrifying British opinion, the murders forced Gladstone to maintain coercion in Ireland at a time when, following the Kilmainham treaty, it was about to be dropped, and impelled a depressed Parnell momentarily to consider resigning from parliament.
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"Phoenix Park murders." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Phoenix Park murders." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-PhoenixParkmurders.html "Phoenix Park murders." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-PhoenixParkmurders.html |
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Phoenix Park murders
Phoenix Park murders Late in the afternoon of 6 May 1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish, newly appointed chief secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Burke, his under‐secretary, were walking in Phoenix Park (Dublin) when four men leapt from a cab and stabbed them to death. Soon afterwards newspaper offices in Dublin received black‐edged cards, claiming the outrage for a nationalist group called the ‘Irish Invincibles’. They were never caught.
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JOHN CANNON. "Phoenix Park murders." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Phoenix Park murders." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-PhoenixParkmurders.html JOHN CANNON. "Phoenix Park murders." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-PhoenixParkmurders.html |
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Phoenix Park murders
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 “Invincibles”, a terrorist splinter group of the FENIANS. In the subsequent climate of revulsion against terrorism, PARNELL was able to gain ascendancy over the Irish National League and strengthen the moderate HOME RULE Party.
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"Phoenix Park murders." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Phoenix Park murders." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-PhoenixParkmurders.html "Phoenix Park murders." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-PhoenixParkmurders.html |
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