Wounds by Fergal Keane

Author:Fergal Keane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-08-09T04:00:00+00:00

IV

At night they listened to the sounds of the barracks: shouts, the clatter of boots, engines growling. A town waiting. Denis Quille, IRA volunteer and neighbour of the Keanes, said Captain Watson encountered a party of Tans preparing to take revenge but he ‘told them to go back to their barracks and stay in’.24 The newspapers reported that markets and fairs were shut for months on end. At home in Church Street, Dan Keane would have cursed the bans that threatened his livelihood as a cattle jobber. The official newspaper of the Republican movement reported that before dawn on 3 February in 1921, thirty prominent residents were hauled out of bed by the Black and Tans and ‘were placed in a big cage of barbed wire which had been erected for that purpose. They were “kept on view” for over an hour.’25 In this way the Tans reminded everyone who was in charge.

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