Books by Edward Burke - An Ceathrú Póilí https://www.anceathrupoili.live/ga/authors/edward-burke/ Belfast's Irish Language Bookshop Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:36:59 +0000 ga-IE hourly 1 Ghosts of a Family https://www.anceathrupoili.live/ga/shop/ghosts-of-a-family/ https://www.anceathrupoili.live/ga/shop/ghosts-of-a-family/#respond Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:28:24 +0000 https://www.anceathrupoili.live/shop/ghosts-of-a-family/ At 1.20 a.m. on 24 March 1922, five men, four dressed in British police uniforms, broke into the North Belfast house of Owen McMahon, a well-know Catholic publican. They fatally shot McMahon, four of his sons and Eddie McKinney, an employee of the family. Nobody was ever charged for these ruthless and cold-blooded murders. Over…

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]]> At 1.20 a.m. on 24 March 1922, five men, four dressed in British police uniforms, broke into the North Belfast house of Owen McMahon, a well-know Catholic publican. They fatally shot McMahon, four of his sons and Eddie McKinney, an employee of the family. Nobody was ever charged for these ruthless and cold-blooded murders.

Over 100 years later, Edward Burke has expertly uncovered the identity of the McMahons' likely murderer. This is a riveting cold-case investigation that invokes the smoke-filled streets of Belfast during the cataclysmic violence of 1920-22, and explores how the ramifications of the McMahon killings are still being felt to this day.

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