Barry Cummins
Auteur van Missing: Missing Without Trace in Ireland
Over de Auteur
Barry Cummins is a news journalist with RTE.
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland
- Woonplaatsen
- Dublin, Ireland
- Opleiding
- Dublin City University (B.A., Communication Studies, 1995)
Dublin City University (M.A., Journalism, 1999) - Beroepen
- journalist
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Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 7
- Leden
- 59
- Populariteit
- #280,813
- Waardering
- 4.3
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 19
My only real objection is that Cummins invariably declares that the people he is writing about have been murdered. The book jacket, for instance, mentions "Annie McCarrick who was murdered in the Dublin-Wicklow mountains." Annie's remains have never been found, no suspects have been arrested, and there are no witnesses and no hard evidence to indicate that she is in fact dead, let alone murdered. Granted, she probably was, but the assumptions about the missing people's fates seriously detract from the author's credibility. Still, in spite of this the book's details making it worth looking at.… (meer)