Second paragraph of third chapter: Martial law was restricted to the south-west to keep Dublin open for those, in Sturgis's jokey phrase, 'as wants to negotiate'. A few on both sides seem to have wanted to. They found a new intermediary in Patrick Joseph Clune, Archbishop of Perth, a man with some experience of the war - he had been visiting his ( Read more... )

10) Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion, by Charles Townshend ( Read more... )

Back home, and counting the cost of my visit to P-Con and then to Hodges Figgis and Waterstone's on Dawson Street the next day:

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