William Martin Murphy: patriotic entrepreneur or ‘a soulless, money-grubbing tyrant’?

AE’s letter is enshrined in the literature on the strike, but one never hears of Murphy’s letter to the Daily Citizen, in which he responded to the charge that he had produced the state of affairs existing in Dublin. ‘At the Court of Inquiry at Dublin Castle’, he declared, ‘I was cross-examined for hours by ... Read more

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