You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Money, greed, fame and a missing ladies' man. It's the stuff of dreams for an investigator... When Patrick McDermott, former boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John went on a fishing trip in 2005 and didn't come back, the whole world was awash with speculation. Did he fall overboard? Was he murdered? Or did he 'walk from life' and start a new life south of the border. Investigator Philip R Klein and his team spent years looking for Patrick, under the watchful eyes of a television camera crew, and for the first time ever, in this tell-all account of the case, Philip reveals all the secrets to his findings.
"400 United Irishmen and fellow-rebels brought the spirit of Irish rebellion "down under" in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - and changed Australia forever. At Castle Hill in 1804, this "army of shadows" carried on where they left off but during Bligh's overthrow in 1808, they stood back from a fight that was not theirs. The "political Irish" played a central role in the developing colony. Their professions, trades and skills made them useful as clerks, storekeepers and teachers, and fitted them to be overseers and constables, and helped bring self-sufficiency to the still-fragile colonial economy. They remained revolutionaries; only they negotiated change rather than raised warlike rebellion. Through their open defiance and quiet manipulation of authority, the harp "new strung" resonates to this day in the Australian ethos that United Irishmen helped to create." -- book cover.
None
None
This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this book sheds light on the various social, legal and political contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed. In Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study elucidates ideas of class, gender, community a...
None
The real story behind the hunt for Patrick McDermott; the story nobody has told through the eyes of Philip R. Klein, the lead investigator.