The Shankill Butchers
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409065227
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

The Shankill Butchers

A Case Study of Mass Murder

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The bestselling non-fiction book from the definitive writer on Ireland's tumultuous past. A gruesome investigation into one of Britain's most brutal and horrifying murder cases, perpetuated by the infamous serial killers Murphy's gang.

The bestselling investigation of one of Northern Ireland's most brutal and infamous murder cases

'Makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading' Washington Times
'Dillon is recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of British-Irish politics. He stands alone as one of the most creative writers of our time' Irish Times
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'This was the ultimate way to kill a man.'

In the 1970s, in some of the most violent days of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder in the Shankill area of Belfast, leaving thirty Catholics dead. Their leader was Lenny Murphy: a fanatical Unionist whose childhood was marked by sectarian violence, Murphy swore revenge on all Catholics, and with his gang wreaked havoc onto an already fractured city.

Not for the squeamish, The Shankill Butchers is a horrifying and detailed account of one of the most brutal series of murders in the history of Northern Ireland - a phenomenon whose real nature has been obscured by the troubled and violent context from which it sprang.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409065227
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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About the author

Martin Dillon

Martin Dillon is a Belfast journalist who, after an initial spell on newspapers, spent eighteen years working for the BBC in Northern Ireland. He is an acknowledged expert on terrorism and is the author of The Shankhill Butchers, The Dirty War, Killer in Clowntown and Stone Cold. He lives with his family in France.

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Praise for The Shankill Butchers

A chilling book, chilling but fascinating ... People on both sides - or some of them - are likely to read Martin Dillon, and to learn from him

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Dillon is recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of British - Irish politics. He stands alone as one of the most creative writers of our time

Irish Times

Dillon's books are a working lifetime's brave and persistent effort to get information of a kind which, as he frankly says, can be perilous to possess, let alone to reveal

Times Literary Supplement

Gruesome territory...the great value of Martin Dillon's carefully researched and readable work is that it enters a world that few journalists have been inclined or able to penetrate

Listener

Gruesome yet compelling and superbly researched

Tribune

Mr. Dillon recounts in chilling detail the evolution of Murphy's gang and the efforts to catch them. It makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading

Washington Times

This will make you squirm

London Evening Standard