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“... notes) Vol. – Volunteer – Thomas Ashe, who died in Mountjoy Prison 25 September 1917, to Vol. Michael Devine, INLA, who died in the Maze 20 August 1981. Above is a dove of peace caged in barbed wire; below the quote: ‘I’ll wear no convict’s uniform, nor meekly serve my time.’ Less ringing, and not attributed to the IRA, is the nearby Bloody Sunday ...”

“... of the farm at East Stour’. The father counter-attacked. His witness, the nursery maid Frances Barber, declared that the children were being influenced against him by Mrs Cottington, that they were brought up ‘very much indulged and... unruly’, that Henry spat at servants, that he committed ‘some indecent actions with his sister Beatrice’, that he ...”

“... hair, centre-parted in a distinctly outmoded do that was a credit to the artistry of the jailhouse barber. But he too maintained a demeanour of close-buttoned gentility throughout his trial, looking more like a poker-faced juror than a man accused of double murder. The American press found the entire family spooky and ‘psychotic’ in their apparent absence ...”