Stunning new novel by critically acclaimed Irish writer Carlo Gebler, this book addresses the miscarriages of justice endemic in the Irish judicial system. On a wet November morning in 1940 Harry Gleeson discovered the body of Moll McCarthy in a field near the village of New Inn, Co. Tipperary. Moll McCarthy had been shot twice with a shotgun, once in the face - Carlo Gebler's novel is an attempt to explain how the local police fabricated their case and fitted up Harry Gleeson, and why an entire community looked away as the Irish judicial system prosecuted, convicted and condemned to death an innocent man. Albert Pierrepoint (the hangman) executed Harry Gleeson in Mountjoy in April 1941.
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Carlo is the author of a range of books including The Eleventh Summer (1985); How to Murder a Man (1998) and A Good Day For A Dog (2008). In 2000 he published an autobiography, Father and I: a memoir. He lives outside Enniskillen in Northern Ireland and teaches creative writing at HMP Maghaberry, where he is writer-in-residence
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By Lucky S
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A really enjoyable and gripping book. Gébler tells this story of IRA brutality and the apathy of the establishment with great warmth and humanity. Highly recommended!
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I can't remember the last time I read a book so quickly. It's absorbing and fascinating and incredibly moving, but not at all sentimental, and the story is told sparely and elegantly. I think that the cover does the book a disservice, though - I think it would be much more representative if it had a period cover in the style of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Missing Postman. This is small thing, though, and shouldn't stop anyone from buying this really wonderful book. Very highly recommended.
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Carlo Gebler is a most underrated writer. I first came across his books when I read "Father and I", a very moving raw account of life with his father Ernest.
Dead Eight is a very well written novel about a true event in New Inn Co Tipperary that led to the controversial hanging of an alleged innocent man Harry Gleeson, his description of rural Ireland and the local characters in the 1930's-1940's is superbly crafted. This novel is highly recommended.
Dead Eight is a very well written novel about a true event in New Inn Co Tipperary that led to the controversial hanging of an alleged innocent man Harry Gleeson, his description of rural Ireland and the local characters in the 1930's-1940's is superbly crafted. This novel is highly recommended.
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