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Boy, in a rich Dublin brogue: "Ah, now! would I stale anythin', yer honner, an' me the poor milk-boy? Is it stale him? Bedad, it's my father's cuzin that's at the Curragh! Sure he's a corporal, so he is. He brought him, and he sez, 'Yez'll get me a pound for him, and no less. So it's a pound I want for him, sur, and nothin' less. An' sure John Lambert knows me well so he does!"
The effect of the preparations for rebellion in Ulster, of the Curragh incident, and of the collision between troops and people in Dublin the effect of the existence of a permitted Nationalist Volunteer Force the effect of Redmond's appeal: these were three completely novel and conflicting currents in the stream of Irish life.
"You cannot," he said, "restore to life those you have slain, but you can at least restore the buildings you have devastated and ruined." So they went and repaired many churches, after which they resolved to go on a pilgrimage upon the great Atlantic Ocean. They built for themselves therefore a curragh or coracle, covered with hides three deep.
'Out across the sad, soaked curragh towards the sea, Striding, striving go the men, With their spades and forks and barrows toil for me That my corn may grow again 'Ah I but safe from blast of wind and bitter sea, You who loved me -Tusa féin Live and feel and work for others, not for me, Never coming back again.
But he wandered away in the darkness over the Curragh to the shore, and in the grey of morning he was at the door again, bringing the cold breath of the dawn into the house with the long whisper round the door ajar. "How's she going on now?" The women bundled him out bodily, and then he hung about the roads like a dog disowned.
There was nothing in the least improper, although the supporters of the Government tried to make out that there was, in the officers at the Curragh revealing what the Commander-in-Chief had said to them, so long as they did not communicate anything to the Press. They were not, and could not be, pledged to secrecy.
It was generally given out as "piece work" to one man, the "master-flogger," as you might term him, who employed the others. One of these, a very decent Irishman, Tom Cassidy, whom I had known in Liverpool, had the contract for the work at the Curragh Camp, and he had about a score of his fellow-countrymen working for him.
After journeying a considerable time in silence, he could not help asking, 'Was it far to the end of their journey? 'Ta cove was tree, four mile; but as duinhe-wassel was a wee taiglit, Donald could, tat is, might would should send ta curragh. This conveyed no information.
Many of the men from the Curragh used to come to Mass on Sundays at Suncroft, and often in his sermons which were none the less edifying because they were given in the same free and easy style as his gossips with us on the road he would tell his people of the talks he had had with the men from the Camp, and what good Irishmen he found among them.
The party had been squared by the addition of two young men, one of them a soldier from the Curragh, named Fortescue, and the other a naval sub-lieutenant, named Radway.
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