Barry Kennerk

This is a collection of history and anecdotes well written and interestingly told about the Dublin Metropolitian Police, it's mostly about Victorian Dublin which was a somewhat lawless place and the copy I read is littered with postits at the moment for notes for myself. It was a quick and easy read and I was impressed by an extensive bibliography and the index.
It gives a good flavour of what living in Dublin must have been like in the Victorian Era, a fair amount of lawlessness and a lot of chaos. Some great characters on both sides.… (meer)