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The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland (Reprint Edition) by Peter Duffy Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-06-084051-X / 006084051X ISBN-13: 978-0-06-084051-8 / 9780060840518 At the height of the Irish Famine, now considered the greatest social disaster to strike nineteenth-century Europe, Anglo-Irish landlord Major Denis Mahon was assassinated as he drove his carriage through his property in County Roscommon. Mahon had already removed 3,000 of his 12,000 starving tenan |