In doing so, she gives the complex international politics a human face and helps readers understand how a thuggish act of brutality could roil trans-Atlantic diplomacy for decades. Gillian O’Brien has rescued this story from obscurity in this carefully researched and clearly written book. It was a sensational tale that exposed corruption in the Chicago police force and, more important, weakened support for Irish republicanism in the United States. By the time his assailants were tried and convicted in a trial that lasted weeks, the story of Cronin’s murder had become known to newspaper readers around the world. Patrick Henry Cronin in the city’s largest funeral since Abraham Lincoln’s body had lain in state in 1865.
In 1889 over 12,000 Chicagoans filed past the coffin of Dr. Publisher: Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
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