num_pages: 316
description: During the 1970s a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which left thirty Northern Irish Catholics dead. Their leader was Lenny Murphy, a fanatical Unionist whose Catholic-sounding surname led to his persecution as a child for which he took revenge on all Catholics.Not for the squeamish, The Shankill Butchers is a horrifyingly detailed account of one of the most brutal series of murders in British legal history--a phenomenon whose real nature has been obscured by the political and violent context from which it sprang.
language: English
title: The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder
titlecomplete: The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder
genres: True Crime, Crime, History, Irish Literature, Biography, War, Politics, Ireland, Nonfiction, Terrorism
ratings_count: 1024
publisher: Routledge