Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York – Author Talk
Join us to hear Mark Bulik talk about his recent book Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York. Mark is a former editor at The New Of Delaware County and The Daily Times.
The book, hailed by The New York Daily News as “a harrowing account of how the IRA came to New York City to get vengeance on a traitor,” explores the only authorized attack by the Irish Republican Army on American soil – the 1922 shooting of an informer who fled County Cork after getting six IRA men killed during the Irish War for Independence. A year after the killings in Cork, three of his former comrades tracked the informer to Manhattan and gunned him down in a hail of bullets before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers at 84th Street and Central Park West. The three gunmen then visited Philadelphia.
Signed copies of the book will be available for sale. Bulik, a native of Ridley Park, has been an editor at The New York Times for 26 years. His first book, “The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War,” was praised by Dublin Review of Books as “a milestone study of the Irish in the hard coal fields” of Pennsylvania.
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