Ghosts of a family : Ireland's most infamous unsolved murder, the outbreak of the civil war and the origins of the modern troubles

Burke, Edward2025

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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-known 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. The reluctance of the unionist Belfast government to pursue loyalist killers drove the rift between Northern Ireland's two main communities even deeper, laying the foundations for the Troubles at the end of the 20th century. Over 100 years later, Edward Burke has uncovered the identity of the McMahons' likely murderer.