A gripping true story of conspiracy, bloodletting intrigue, execution
and revenge, 'The Phoenix Park Murders' tells the story of the most
infamous crime of nineteenth century Ireland when assassins wielding
deadly surgical knives killed two men walking in the Phoenix Park on 6
May 1882. One of the dead is the new chief secretary for Ireland, Lord
Frederick Cavendish, a close relative of Prime Minister William Everett
Gladstone. The other is Thomas Henry Burke, head of the Irish Civil
Service, a man denounced by Nationalists as a leading 'Castle Rat' in
the British administration. The government and police must solve this
crime. But there are no clues. The witness descriptions are inconclusive
and city detectives do not know where to begin. Forensic evidence is
non-existant, and they must attempt to penetrate the dangerous Fenian
underworld. But even here no one knows anything because the audacious
crime has been carried out by an entirely new group, one styling itself
the 'Irish Invincibles'.