In 1982, wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur shocked Ireland with a brutal double murder. 40 years later, he's finally breaking his silence in a new book. Author Mark O'Connell explains what it ...

In 1982, Malcolm Macarthur, an Irish aristocrat and heir, was in financial trouble. With a vague plan to rob a bank, he bought a crossbow, a tweed fisherman’s hat, and called his mother.

Malcolm MacArthur during his trial at the Central Criminal Court in 1983. Photo: Independent News And Media/Getty Images. Despite Macarthur’s arrest, early in the morning of 14 August, ...

Malcolm Macarthur had the means to do nothing with his life yet couldn’t even manage that successfully. Photograph: Collins Over 300 pages, he succeeds in stripping the phantasmagorical aspects ...

Malcolm Macarthur had one particular trait that became more and more apparent as I researched The Irish Times podcast series, Gubu, and, subsequently, my book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach.

At the age of five, Malcolm Macarthur was kicked in the head by a horse. At least that is how his neglectful mother and a farmhand on his parents’ Irish estate recalled it. Wrong, insists Mr ...

In the same way that Malcolm grasps that Sischy’s culinary performance throws light on her entire approach to life, or that Fisher’s treatment of her cats says more about how she runs her company than ...

Malcolm MacArthur: The brutal murders and 'GUBU' scandal that rocked the nation . I wanted to pierce that silence, and break through to whatever lay beneath it.

The writer of the No. 1 bestseller "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" chooses her favourite true crime works. Her acclaimed new book, "The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place", is out now.

Malcolm Macarthur being led from a courthouse in Dublin in November 1983. Credit... Independent News and Media/Getty Images. By Christopher Benfey. June 27, 2023.

Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind.

In 1982, wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur shocked Ireland with a brutal double murder. 40 years later, he's finally breaking his silence in a new book. Author Mark O'Connell explains what it ...