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Cargando... The Donnellys Must Diepor Orlo Miller
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From the annals of Canadian true crime, the story of The Black Donnellys massacre Ancient feuds, bloody conspiracy, gruesome murder, and bitter controversy--all shrouded in a seemingly impenetrable cloak of mystery. This is the tale of "The Black Donnellys"--a notorious family of Irish settlers who were viciously attacked while they slept in their Lucan, Ontario farmhouse on February 4, 1880. Here, in this definitive account of this sordid episode in Canadian history, first published in 1962 and continuously in print since then, author Orlo Miller sets out to separate fact from fiction, and legend from reality, to bring us the truth behind the Donnelly murders. Combining exhaustive research based on contemporary newspaper accounts, court records and personal diaries, with personal insights and dramatic re-creations, Miller's chilling revelations shed new light on this infamous case in the annals of Canadian crime. You will be taken on a journey of terrible bloodlust, unbending loyalties, and fatal revenge in the re-telling of an event whose infamy still lives in popular culture today. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In the mid-1800s, Jim and Johanna Donnelly moved to Canada from Ireland to raise a family of seven boys and one girl. With them, and with the other Irish immigrants who came to the same area in Canada, came old feuds. The Donnellys had a bad reputation and were blamed for a lot of the crime (some rightly, some not) that happened in their small area near Lucan, Ontario. After decades of feuds, brawls, barroom fights, petty crimes, arsons, and deaths, five of the Donnelly family were murdered by some of the townsfolk, calling themselves the Vigilance Committee. No one was ever convicted.
The author tried to base his account of the Donnellys as much as possible on primary sources, including newspaper articles (which, at the time, were biased themselves), and trial transcripts. The other books I've read about the Donnellys seemed to me to imply the Donnellys as guilty of more crimes than this book did (though they were, no doubt, guilty of plenty of their own crimes, but there was generally a lot of crime going on at the time and it couldn't have all been by the Donnellys). I got the impression that this book is more impartial than the other books I've read (only two others). I thought it was good, and would recommend it as a starting point for anyone wanting to read about this fascinating Canadian true crime story. (