Yes, and Mark Hely-Hutchinson too. But not the Joyce brothers. Had to look them up![]()
I have a cousin up the mountain who is known as 'Mickey's Paddy's Mickey's Mickey'. I josh not, somehow it's not as bad when it's first names.
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If dreams were lightning, thunder was desire, this whole place would have burned down, a long time ago.
That's an interesting one. Francis Sheehy Skeffington was a committed feminist (also ironically a pacifist who was killed during the 1916 Rising by a policeman) and took his wife's surname at marriage. She took his in return. I don't think he was doing it out of fashion or pretensions.
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Francis Sheehy Skeffington was summarily executed by a firing squad under the command of Captain J. C. Bowen-Colthurst, Royal Irish Rifles.
Thus all which you call Sin, Destruction—in brief, Evil—that is my true element.
Ah, ok. Wasn't the execution by the above captain supposed to be an unauthorised act. Apparently Sheehy Skeffington had actually been trying to prevent looting in the aftermath of the Rising when he was picked up, I had presumed it was police. Talk about wrong place, wrong time.
Very much so.
LinkBowen-Colthurst was tried and found guilty be a military court but immediate intervention was made on his behalf and he was declared to be insane. Imprisoned in Broadmoor Criminal Mental Asylum, he was released in 1922 and settled in Canada where he died as late as 1966, the 50th anniversary of the Rising. Whether he was truly mad or just bad will always be debatable.
Thus all which you call Sin, Destruction—in brief, Evil—that is my true element.
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