Man of Honour

One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney''s harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh - son of Queen Victoria - lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O''Farrell. Who was this character who began the day a complete unknown and ended it as the young colony''s most ...