In Dublin’s Phoenix Park in 1882, the Invincibles stabbed and killed two British imperial civil servants, the Chief Secretary and Permanent Undersecretary for Ireland. The killers were convicted and hanged, and Skin-the-Goat, the driver who helped them escape, was convicted as an accessory to murder.
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Phoenix Park Murders Term Timeline in Ulysses
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Episode 7: Aeolus
...like how the journalist Ignatius Gallaher sent encoded information to New York about the 1881 Phoenix Park murders committed by the invincibles (a group of Irish nationalists). The phone rings, and MacHugh answers:...
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Episode 16: Eumaeus
...in Italy and pulling out a knife to re-enact it. He comments on the Invincibles’ Phoenix Park murders , and Bloom and Stephen are glad to see that Skin-the-Goat doesn’t notice what Murphy...
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