February 2025

It was the only Irish Republican Army operation on U.S. soil – a bold but clumsily executed plot to kill an informer, one Patrick Joseph “Cruxy” O’Connor, who had made his way to New York City in hopes of eluding the IRA’s grasp – notably, the three gunmen sent to finish him off. That’s the story at the heart of Mark Bulik’s richly detailed book, “Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA came to New […] Read More