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The Phoenix Park Murders

on BBC Radio 4 FM

On 6 May 1882, at 7.0 in the evening, in Dublin's largest park. there occurred one of the most savage political murders in British history.
The newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish , and the Under-Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, were stabbed repeatedly by a band of assassins who called themselves the Invincibles. Their act destroyed all hope for Irish Home Rule in Gladstone's time and effectively split his party with Denys Hawthorne as Charles Stewart Parnell and Peter Gilmore as Narrator with the voices of DENIS MCCARTHY , BLAIN FAIRMAN LEWIS STRINGER , JIM NORTON HARRY WEBSTER , JULIE HALLAM
ANTHONY HALL. WILLIAM EEDLE
WILLIAM FOX and HILDA SCHRODER Written and produced by MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

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Lord Frederick Cavendish
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Thomas Henry
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Denys Hawthorne
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Charles Stewart Parnell
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Peter Gilmore
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Denis McCarthy
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Blain Fairman
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Lewis Stringer
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Jim Norton
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Harry Webster
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Julie Hallam
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Anthony Hall.
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William Eedle
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William Fox
Produced By:
Maurice Leitch

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