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Updated: June 8, 2025
"If you want a subscription " said Hinde. "I do not want any subscription." "That's just as well, for you wouldn't get it if you did. I've no money, for one thing; and besides it wouldn't suit a man in my position to be subscribing to rebel bands." "I wouldn't ask you," said O'Farrelly. "Don't I know as well as yourself that it would be no use?
You'd know that if you'd ever seen him singing 'God Save the King. He swells out an inch all over when he's doing it." "If he's as loyal as all that," said Waterhouse, "he wouldn't consult with rebels." "My dad, though loyal, has some sense, and so, as it happened, had O'Farrelly. Neither one nor the other of them wanted to see a battle fought in the streets of Ballymahon.
It took the poor old dad nearly an hour to talk sense into the two of them; but in the end he managed it O'Farrelly agreed to go if the safe conduct was signed by my dad as well as the officer, and the officer agreed to take him on condition that my dad went too to explain the situation to his colonel. I went with them just to see what would happen."
You've seen battles, Waterhouse, and you know what they're like. Messy things. You can understand my father's feelings. O'Farrelly was awfully nice about it. He said that the people of Ballymahon, including my father and even the police, were a decent lot, and he'd hate to see licentious English soldiers rioting through the streets of the town.
He sent out scouts to see where the soldiers were and how many there were. Quite the proper thing to do. I didn't hear exactly what the scouts reported; but that evening O'Farrelly came round to our house to talk things over with my dad." "I thought you said your father was a loyal man." "So he is. There isn't a loyaller man in Ireland.
"Every right. O'Farrelly was complaining to me three days ago that one set of band instruments had been stolen from him. It's my business to see that he doesn't lose another set in the same way, even if he's careless enough to leave them lying about on the side of the road." "Amn't I telling you that they're ours, not his?" said Jimmy. "You'll have to settle that with him."
His idea was that my dad should use his influence with the C.O. of the troops and get him to march his men off somewhere else, so as to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. O'Farrelly promised he wouldn't go after them or molest them in any way if they left the neighbourhood My dad said he couldn't do that and even if he could, he wouldn't. He suggested that O'Farrelly should take his army away.
He sized up the position at once and suggested the only possible way out O'Farrelly, with a proper safe conduct, of course, was to be allowed to go and see whether the town was really surrounded, and especially whether there was a gun on top of the hill, as the officer said. That, I think you'll agree with me, Waterhouse, was a sensible suggestion and fair to both sides.
Then they took the fork of the road which leads southwards. The direct route to Dicky's Brae lies northwest along the other fork of the road. Cornelius O'Farrelly had the instinct of a military commander. His idea was to make a wide detour, march by a cross-road and take the Dicky Brae position in the rear.
It was Cornelius O'Farrelly who made an attempt to save the situation. He came forward and addressed Mr. Hinde.
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