Walled In By Hate: Kevin O'Higgins, His Friends and Enemies
Arthur Mathews
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Walled In By Hate: Kevin O'Higgins, His Friends and Enemies

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In July 1927, at just thirty-five years old, Kevin O' Higgins was assassinated on his way to Mass in Booterstown, Co. Dublin. A reviled figure for anti-Treaty republicans, O' Higgins became the target of particular venom for his vocal support of the Free State government's execution policy during the Civil War, which saw seventy-seven IRA men die before firing squads, including the best man at his wedding, Rory O' Connor. In Walled in By Hate, Arthur Mathews examines not just the life and death of O' Higgins, focusing on that most acrimonious time in his life, but also those of his contemporar...