![]() Since then, Macarthur has lurked around the national imagination as a motif of a strange time a puckish, insolent figure in a bow tie with the curiously poetic name, responsible for a disturbing, off-kilter spree of violence, who had peripheral ties with what passed for elite society in the ransacked Ireland of the early 1980s. Forty-one years have passed since Macarthur emerged from the fringes of a shiftless Irish gentrified background to commit two brutal killings that were almost random acts of violence in his ill-conceived plan to carry out a bank robbery. It’s a question that he will probably field again and again over this hot summer. “And I’m not even sure what it would mean to call someone a monster.” ![]() ![]() I don’t think he’s a monster,” Mark O’Connell says slowly in answering whether he liked Malcolm Macarthur.
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