Life Sentence
Murder Victims and their Families
Published on 3. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-86278-858-2 (ISBN)
Description
A teenage boy is snatched as he walks up the road, minutes from his own house, and beaten to death with a hammer; two psychiatric patients are stabbed to death in their sheltered accommodation; a young girl is fatally stabbed in her own bedroom by a neighbour she hardly knows; a man is beaten to death in an apparent gangland feud. Bereavement under any circumstance is devastating, but when the cause is murder, grief takes on an extra dimension. Those left behind live under a life sentence, condemned to years of painful memories and deep regrets. Based on personal interviews with victims' families, Catherine Cleary tells the horrific stories of twelve murders and how their families have survived the ordeal.
Reviews / Votes
'Harrowing material though it is, this deserves to be widely read, and is a wholly necessary project if it goes some way towards achieving its aim.' -- The Irish Independent * Irish Independent * 'captures the quiet dignity apparent in many families' attempt to adapt to their changed lives' -- The Irish Times * The Irish Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
16 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
189 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86278-858-2 (9780862788582)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
CATHERINE CLEARY is a journalist, author and broadcaster. She began her career as a reporter with The Irish Times in 1994 and became security correspondent of The Sunday Tribune. She met Alice Leahy in the 1990s while reporting on social issues around crime and poverty. Catherine's publications include: Life Sentence, Murder Victims and their Families (2004) and A Month of Somedays, How One Woman made the most of Now (2012). She co-wrote Counter Culture, The Sheridans' Guide to Cheese in 2015. She also co-wrote and presented the RTE radio series History on a Plate with historian Juliana Adelman. She has been writing a weekly restaurant review
in The Irish Times for the past seven years.
in The Irish Times for the past seven years.