Peter Duffy: "The Killing of Major Denis Mahon" Book Reading and Signing October 18, 2007

At the height of the Great Famine, an Anglo-Irish landlord named Major Denis Mahon from County Roscommon was assassinated. In THE KILLING OF MAJOR DENIS MAHON: A Mystery of Old Ireland, award-winning journalist Peter Duffy tells, the story of the assassination and its connection to the cataclysm that would forever change Ireland and America. The murder was one of the most pivotal moments of modern Irish history, and one of the most important events for American history as well.

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