BOOK REVIEW INSPECTOR MALLON: BUYING IRISH PATRIOTISM FOR A FIVE-POUND NOTE: THE REAL INSPECTOR MALLON

摘要

He was a farm boy from republican south Armagh who rose to become Ireland's most famous detective and most feared secret policeman, the first catholic to rise as high as assistant commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. For decades Inspector Mallon and the detective G men at Dublin Castle hounded the Irish Fenian revolutionaries. Walking daily through the cobbled streets of Dublin; chatting with the gentry or greengrocers; holing up in seedy smoky bars in the Liberties and Temple Bar; or leading his men on night raids, this bear of a man came to know Victorian Dubliners as few others did. Always courteous and never violent in his own methods, his policing philosophy was one of deterrent and intimidation rather than entrapment.