Two outstanding books published this year reached back into the 1980s. Other fine tomes made their way onto shelves over the last twelve months so let’s take a peek at some which, certainly in the opinion of this columnist, nourished the imagination in 2023.
Malcolm Macarthur has long been a source of fascination if not repulsion. In the dog days of a sweltering July in 1982, he murdered two young innocent people, Bridie Gargan and Derek Dunne. The former was a nurse sunbathing in the Phoenix Park after coming off a shift. The latter was a farmer who had advertised a gun for sale.
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