The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art
by Matthew Hart
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Author: Matthew HartEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-01
ISBN: 0802714269
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Walker & Company
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Book Review: "Every time you touch me I become a hero."
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't generally read mystery novels;for the simple reason that when I finish one,I don't really feel that I've learned anything.Sure,there is the suspense, of trying to figure out whodunit;in the final analysis,logic isn't the governing factor;and the author calls the shot.
True crime is quite a different matter,and I find that getting into the real mind of a real person,is much more interesting.
Reading this book, one gets a very real insight into crime in the art world. The way the mind of Cahill works is unveiled as well as the way that the Irish police operate. After all,Irish culture is the result of many centuries of the people fighting the establishment.
The author beautifully sums it up with this paragraph;
"But the roots of insurrection stretch much farther back in time,into an ancient tradition of secret,peasant societies formed by the dispossessed Gaels in the centuries following the Norman invasion,and persisting into later times. These small,clandestine bands had no chnce of reversing history. Their mission was to exact a steady taxation of terror from those in power over them. They depended on concealment on the complicity of their fellow Irishmen,who shared their language,race and fate. This old tradition of resistance to authority was too deeply engrained to evaporate with Irish independence,and the job of a policeman in Ireland is always at war with the past."
Along with gaining a good insight into Irish crime; we get a real understanding of the nature of crime in the world of priceless art. I often wondered why criminals stole these items when they are so easily identifiable and therefore virtually impossible to fence. This book clearly explains what goes on here. When a great piece of art is stolen,we also see that it becomes an international crime.
This book reads like fiction; but when you come to the end ;you are left with the satisfaction that you've really learned something.
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