Family Feud

By Anthony Galvin

For 25 years, Limerick has been in the grip of the gangs THIS IS THE STORY of how it all began. 1978 and a double-murder that Gardai could not solve - the murder no one saw. It was a busy evening in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340831537
• ISBN13: 9780340831533
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Hodder Headline Group
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"In Limerick blood runs thicker than friendship"

When one talks about Organized Crime in North America ,everyone knows what the subject is.This book is about a crime wave in Ireland ;in and about the City of Limerick.It is nothing like the Rackets or the days of Capone,Schultz,Dillinger,Gotti,or any of the mobs we are used to. This present day crime wave is more like the days of the Hatfield's and McCoys ,the Lincoln County range wars,shootouts at the OK Corral,and so on.This is downright,drawn out, bitter to the n'th. degree famiy feuding with it's basis on the drug trade as opposed to cattle rustling;using modern tools of the trade such as car bombs and AK47's instead of horses and six-shooters. What it also reminds me of is the times of The Black Donnelly's here in Ontario between 1840-1880.This feuding is well written about and there is an excellent web site to be found under The Black Donnelly's.It is by far Canada's most famous feuding family story. Fighting never gets worse than when it involves people who know one another as well as their extended families and friends. After a bar fight and several injuries;no one had any information.One retired detective joked:"They were all in the toilet when the row broke out.It must have been the biggest toilet in Ireland" Another garda (cop) confirmed the collective amnesia,and the reluctance of witnesses to make statements,saying:"That was the night everyone was in the toilet." "That night the bodies of the two brothers were brought from Cross's funeral home to St.Munchin's Church ,almost across the road from where they had met their deaths.A large crowd attended the removal.The following day,after a requiem Mass at noon,a large crowd followed the cortege to Mount St. Lawrence cemetary,where the McCarthys were laid to rest.The gardai kept an unobtrusive presence." In an attempt to quell violence the Bishop of Limereck pleaded "May the Prince of Peace be with us and our city." "The Prince of Peace was not what was concerning the gardai.They were more worried about the Rajah of Revenge.An eye for an eye is good feuding etiquette ,and they were trying desperately to second-guess who would be next ,to prevent a bloodbath" "It takes two sides to make a feud,and two sides to make a peace.The problem has always been that one side,almost invariably the same side,has been unwilling to consider compromise." Even the women are involved: "May a widow's curse be on them for the rest of their lives." If you like reading True Crime;you'll really enjoy this book. I don't know how my review got here.It was written for a book "Family Feud" by Anthony Galvin and appears there too; but not here with all my other reviews. I tried to correct this as you can see by the above.It still doesn't appear with all my reviews as Family Feud but a title of Blinded by "Lite" by Patricia McGraph Morris---Sorry!