The bitter bile of a late Georgian journalist

John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork Society, by Neil Cronin (Four Courts Press / Maynooth Studies in Local History, €12.95 / £11.95)   The despicable John Boyle was a man of appalling character. His current biographer, Neil Cronin, must have had to hold his nose while shovelling through the toxic detritus of gutter journalism…

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John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork Society, by Neil Cronin (Four Courts Press / Maynooth Studies in Local History, €12.95 / £11.95)   The despicable John Boyle was a man of appalling character. His current biographer, Neil Cronin, must have had to hold his nose while shovelling through the toxic detritus of gutter journalism…

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