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The Gilligan Tapes
John Gilligan is no altar boy, by his own admission. One of Ireland’s most infamous criminals and drug lords, and widely believed in the court of public opinion to have ordered the cold-blooded murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, he remains a defiant figure. In this remarkable book – the first of its kind – journalist Jason O’Toole distills hours of sensational face-to-face, no-holdsbarred interviews with the feared criminal into a fast-paced and jaw-dropping account of the Irish gangland scene. And Gilligan doesn’t mince his words. ‘I didn’t believe in God, but I know I’m going to hell.’Starting out as a petty thief in Dublin, Gilligan rose to the status of crime lord ea...
Somewhere
From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome Robbins To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive mentor, a generous and entertaining companion and colleague. Born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York City in 1918, Jerome Robbins repudiated his Jewish roots along with his name only to reclaim them with his triumphant staging of Fiddler on the Roof. A self-proclaimed homosexual, he had romances or relationships with both men and women, some famous—like Montgomery Clift and Natalie Wood—some less ...
Serial Murder
Psychiatry held centre court in relation to studies into serial murder up to the 1980s. Since that time a more generalised and scholarly approach has been taken and this volume assesses current ways of researching and commenting upon serial murder.
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Garry Neill Kennedy
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The Presumption of Innocence in Irish Criminal Law
The right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty has been described as the 'golden thread' running through the web of English criminal law and a "fundamental postulate" of Irish criminal law which enjoys constitutional protection. Reflecting on the bail laws in the O'Callaghan case, Walsh J. described the presumption as a 'very real thing and not simply a procedural rule taking effect only at the trial'. The purpose of this book is to consider whether the reality matches the rhetoric surrounding this central precept of our criminal law and to consider its efficacy in the light of recent or proposed legislative innovations. Considerable space is devoted to the anti-crime package introduc...
The Southern Review
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The Federal Reporter
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