Abstract
On Saturday, 6 May 1882, at about 7:30 p.m., while walking together across Phoenix Park in Dublin to dine with the Lord Lieutenant at the Viceregal Lodge, Lord Frederick Cavendish, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, the Under Secretary, were stabbed to death and left in a pool of blood. In the midst of the quarrel over Home Rule, this brutal act was part of the ongoing fight by Irish nationalists against British domination.
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