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Updated: August 12, 2026

Dinner over, the company being composed of the three "boys" and the writer, who among them made short work of a plump turkey and a vigorous inroad on a round of beef, besides disposing of soups, sweets, and sherry not a bad menu under "Boycotting" rules we, after seeing that the front door was properly barred, bolted, and chained, and the iron-linked shutters, relics of the Fenian time, made equally secure, adjourned to the kitchen for a smoke, a common practice in this part of Ireland.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.