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An excerpt from Mark Bulick's "Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York," the thrilling, true story about the only officially sanctioned IRA attack ever conducted on American soil.
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Mark Bulik’s “Ambush at Central Park” tells the story of how one Irishman gave away his comrades’ hiding place, letting the British forces track them down and shoot them. And how, in 1922, Irish avengers followed that snitch all the way to America.
One hundred years ago this week, three IRA gunmen shot and gravely wounded a British spy in Central Park after tracking him across the Atlantic.