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This is the biography of the famous Irish detective and security policeman, John Mallon (1839-1915). Son of a small Catholic farmer in republican south Armagh, Mallon rose to be assistant commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and for 30 years used the G men (the Detective Division) to subvert revolutionary activity in Dublin. He was remarkably successful; his greatest triumph was bringing to the gallows the Invincibles, who had carried out the Phoenix Park murders. Mallon became a legend in Dublin, mentioned in Joyce's Ulysses , very popular with his detectives, always courteous, never resorting to violence in dealing with suspects and a master of interrogation who personally controlled an army of paid informers - the Lord Lieutenant once remarking, 'Without Mallon, we would have no one worth a row of beans'.

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Donal McCracken was born and educated in Ireland. He is senior professor of History and is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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