@article{1476931,
      recid = {1476931},
      author = {Bulik, Mark, },
      title = {Ambush at Central Park : When the IRA Came to New York /},
      pages = {1 online resource (208 p.) :},
      abstract = {A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially  sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil In  1922, three of the Irish Republican Army's top gunmen  arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target:  "Cruxy" O'Connor, a young Irishman who kept switching sides  as revolution swept his country in the wake of World War I.  Cruxy's last betrayal dealt a stunning blow to Ireland's  struggle for independence: six of his I.R.A. comrades were  killed when he told police the location of their safe house  outside Cork. A year later, the I.R.A. gunned him down in a  hail of bullets before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers at  the corner of 84th Street and Central Park West. Based  primarily on first-hand accounts, most of them never before  published, Ambush at Central Park is a cinematic  exploration of the enigma of "Cruxy" O'Connor: Was he  really a decorated war who became a spy for Britain? When  he defected to the I.R.A., did his machine gun really jam  in a crucial attack? When captured, did he give up his  I.R.A. comrades only under torture? Was he a British spy  all along? Or was he pursuing a decades-old blood feud  between his family and that of one of his comrades? A  longtime editor at The New York Times, author Mark Bulik  delved through Irish government archives, newspaper  accounts, census data, and unpublished material from the  families of the main actors. Together they add to the  sensational story of a rebel ambush, a deadly police raid,  a dinner laced with poison, a daring prison break, a  boatload of Tommy guns on the Hoboken waterfront, an  unlikely pair of spies who fall in love, and an audacious  assassination plot against the British cabinet. Gravely  wounded and near death, Cruxy refused to cooperate with the  detectives investigating the case. And so, the spy who  stopped spying and the gunman who stopped shooting became  the informer who wouldn't inform, even at death's door.  Here is a forgotten chapter of Irish and New York history:  the story of the only officially authorized I.R.A. attack  on American soil.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476931},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531502621},
}