William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer, Murphy was an international financier, and a contractor of railways and tramways on three continents as well as in Britain and Ireland. This book re-examines Murphy's career.
A man with a strong social conscience and sense of social responsibility, William Martin Murphy has long been viewed as something of an ogre - as the man who starved the workers of Dublin into submission in 1913-14 and called for the execution of James Connolly in 1916. This revised biography re-examines Murphy's remarkable career. Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ, is a former headmaster of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick and president of the National College of Industrial Relations Dublin. He has written some thirteen books on Irish Labour, Ecclesiastical, Jesuit, and Educational History.
