Revolutionary Dublin, 1912–1923 by John Gibney Donal Fallon

Author:John Gibney, Donal Fallon [John Gibney, Donal Fallon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Ireland, British
ISBN: 9781788410526
Publisher: Gill Books
Published: 2018-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

‘Half the battalion didn’t believe it: many a one had no razor in his kit when the next chance to shave came. For the trains that we really did entrain into sped off not south-westward for the Plain of France, but away and away up the “North Western”, and it wasn’t until they disgorged us on Liverpool Docks that rumours could be swapped about Sinn Fein gentry – broken bottles and shillelaghs.

It was a baptism of fire alright, with flintlocks, shot-guns, and elephant rifles, as well as more orthodox weapons. And 100 casualties in two days’ street fighting was a horrible loss to one battalion: the more so since my one friend from the ranks, commissioned same day, was shot through the head leading a rush on a fortified corner house, first day on active service, and it was my job to write and tell his mother, who thought him still safe in England.’

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