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Updated: June 8, 2025
I said I felt pretty sure the soldiers would go after him to any bog he chose to select O'Farrelly seemed to think there was something in the suggestion and said he'd hold a council of war and consult his officers." "What an amazing liar you are, Power," said Waterhouse. Captain Power took no notice of the insult. He went on with his story.
The police unpacked them carefully and then, loaded with drums and brass instruments, went up the road to meet the Wolfe Tone Republicans. Jimmy McLoughlin ran to Mr. Hinde, shouting as he went: "What are you doing with them drums?" Mr. Hinde turned and waited for them. "I'm going to hand them over to Cornelius O'Farrelly," he said.
"It might be better," said O'Farrelly, "if we was to go home and leave the instruments back safe where they came from before worse comes of it." Ten minutes later the instruments were safely packed again into the cart. One of the Loyal True-Blue Invincibles led the horse. A Wolfe Tone Republican sat in the cart and held the reins. Jimmy McLoughlin and Cornelius O'Farrelly walked together.
'Just form fours in the square outside and you'll all be dead in less than half an hour. But if you stay here a lot of other people who don't want to die for Ireland or anything else will be killed too; along with having their homes knocked down on them. "Well, they saw the sense of that. O'Farrelly formed his men up outside and made a speech to them.
"It's the want of instruments for the band that has us held up," said O'Farrelly. "We lent them, so we did, and the fellows that had them didn't return them." Jimmy McLoughlin pondered the situation. He was as well aware as Mr. Hinde, as O'Farrelly himself, that a demonstration without a band is a vain thing.
It was plain to everyone that hostilities were suspended for the day. "I'm thinking," said Jimmy, "that ye didn't hold your demonstration after all. I hope this'll be a lesson to you not to be trying anything of the sort for the future." "For all your fine talk," said O'Farrelly, "you didn't stop us. And why not? Because you weren't fit to do it."
It occurred to him that though the police had no band instruments to lend it might be possible to borrow elsewhere. The Loyal True-Blue Invincibles, for instance, had a very fine band, well supplied in every way, particularly with big drums. O'Farrelly thought the situation over and then called on Jimmy McLoughlin, the blacksmith, who was the secretary of the Orange Lodge.
O'Farrelly said he was out to fight and not to run away. I chipped in at that point and said he could fight just as well in a lonelier place, where there weren't any houses and no damage would be done.
It wouldn't do if any of the instruments got broke on us or the drums lost which is what has happened more than once when there's been a bit of a fight. And it'll be at Dicky's Brae that we'll be waiting for you." "I thought as much," said O'Farrelly, "and I'd be as sorry as you'd be yourself if any harm was to come to your drums. They'll be left at the cross-roads the way you tell me.
"Why the devil didn't they shell the place and have done with it, instead of talking?" "That's what would happen out here," said Power. "But as I keep telling you our war was run on humane lines. After the officer and O'Farrelly had argued for half an hour my dad dropped in on them. He's a popular man in the place and I think everyone was glad to see him.
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