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 | | The term Phoenix Park Murders is used to refer to the assassination in 1882 of the second and third in command of the British Dublin Castle government of Ireland by the Irish National Invincibles. |
 | | In the aftermath, the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell offered to resign from parliament in protest at what he called "these vice murders", an offer turned down by the British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. |
 | | An investigation cleared the Irish leader of the accusation, which was revealed to be the work of an embittered journalist, Richard Pigott, who committed suicide. |
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